powerful
英 ['paʊəfʊl; -f(ə)l]
美 ['paʊɚfl]
英語の語源
- powerful (adj.)
- c. 1400, from power (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of great quality or number" is from 1811; colloquial sense of "exceedingly" (adv.) is from 1822. Related: Powerfully. Thornton ("American Glossary") notes powerful as "Much used by common people in the sense of very," along with monstrous and cites curious expressions such as devilish good, monstrous pretty (1799), dreadful polite, cruel pretty, abominable fine (1803), "or when a young lady admires a lap dog for being so vastly small and declares him prodigious handsome" (1799).
例文
- 1. The government wilted in the face of such powerful pressure.
- 政府はこのような大きな圧力に直面し、自信を失った。
- 2.The social cachet of some form of qualification in India is powerful .
- インドでは、ある資格を持って大きな社会的威信を享受している。
- 3.The once- powerful post unions have been cut down to size.
- 一時は強気だった郵政連合の勢いはなくなった。
- 4.Ferries are very powerful and manoeuvrable compared to cargo ships.
- 貨物船に比べ、フェリーは馬力が大きく操縦しやすい。
- 5.In some works，flowers take on a powerful emblematic quality.
- いくつかの作品では、花は強い象徴的な意味を持っています。