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pow·er·house
paU r haUs
复数:powerhouses
noun
power plant sense 1
a source of influence or inspiration
one having great power: such as
one having great drive, energy, or ability
a powerhouse rock band
an athletic team characterized by strong aggressive play
以优势力量取胜
The first known use of powerhouse was in 1870
powerlessadjective
lacking power, force, or energy
lacking authority to act
powerlessadjective
lacking power, force, or energy
lacking authority to act
powerhousenoun
power plant
a person or thing having unusual strength or energy
1 She was a powerhouse performer, writer, producer and arranger.
2 The director tells Jason about why he chose to set it in the powerhouse city of western China and how he arrived at his bravura opening shot.
3 It is not the stuff of a thrusting nation with ambitions to be a global design powerhouse.
4 How many mill towns saw their mills close; how many shoe towns saw the shoe industry move elsewhere; how many towns that were once textile powerhouses now buy all their linens from China?
5 Genetic research has made a great impact on skin care in the recent past, and this has not been lost on the cosmetics powerhouse L’Oréal Paris.
6 The Chinese team was next, and the comment was “The Chinese are not as artistic as Spain, but they are powerhouses.”
7 At times she has been a singles powerhouse, dominating the radio and pop charts.
8 It would take several years and the "twin battering rams" of Hollywood movies and Premier League football to win viewers over to pay-TV and turn BSkyB into today's commercial TV powerhouse.
9 Southeast Asia has been emerging as a film production center, with an expanding local workforce and growing exports to the region or even to the traditional creative powerhouses like the United States and Europe.
10 As well as adding Fox’s TV assets to Disney’s portfolio, a deal would create a Hollywood powerhouse.
11 The former British colony has thrived as an economic powerhouse under the “one country, two systems” policy developed under Deng Xiaoping.
12 Now, in the light of a stunning array of sexual misconduct allegations against the powerhouse producer, The Family Guy creator is explaining the full context of his remark.
13 They chose the city, they said, because, well, it needed jobs, and because of its legacy as an industrial powerhouse.
14 After releasing his vocally booming new album “I Am” in August, local powerhouse tenor Jose Iniguez leads this sixth annual holiday concert mixing opera, classical and mariachi bolero music.
15 Carla Fendi, one of the five Italian sisters who transformed their parents' small leather workshop into an international luxury fashion powerhouse, has died at the age of 79, the family said on Tuesday.
16 The fact that he’ll soon be starring in Steve McQueen’s Widows seems to signify that he’s ready to show the world what an acting powerhouse he still is, and not a moment too soon.
17 For comparison, The top 5 songs from classic rock powerhouse Queen all had more airplay than INXS' "Need You Tonight," led by "Another One Bites The Dust" with 2,724 spins.
18 Obama rose to the occasion, one year tag teaming with rising comedic powerhouse Keegan-Michael Key, who played Luther, the president’s “anger translator,” voicing the supposed rage simmering beneath Obama’s cool demeanor.
19 And both highlight the essence of Doritos, the powder that turns ordinary tortilla chips into the powerhouse snack brand.
20 Saudi Arabia plans to turn itself into an industrial powerhouse.
沙特计划把自己变成工业大国。