powerhouses

英 [ˈpaʊəhaʊsɪz]

美 [ˈpaʊərˌhaʊsɪz]

n.  强大的集团(或组织); 精力充沛的人; 身强力壮的人
powerhouse的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 权势集团；强国
  Apowerhouseis a country or organization that has a lot of power or influence.
  1. Nigeria is the most populous African country and an economic powerhouse for the continent.
     尼日利亚是非洲人口最稠密的国家，也是非洲大陆的经济强国。
• 精力充沛的人；充满活力的人
  If you say that someone is apowerhouse, you mean that they are very energetic.

双语例句

• Countries previously viewed as suitable only for charity will become the new powerhouses.
  以前被看作只适于从事慈善事业的国家，将成为新的力量发源地。
• Uruguay, Colombia and Chile have rarely looked better equipped to compete with the traditional local powerhouses of Brazil and Argentina to provide an all Latin America final.
  乌拉圭，哥伦比亚和智利很少能像现在这样做好准备同传统强队巴西和阿根廷作战，并一同进入总决赛。
• So Hadoop borrowed an idea from Google, made the concept open source, and both encouraged and got investment from powerhouses like Yahoo.
  所以Hadoop借用了一个来自谷歌的点子，把这个概念开源，然后得到了雅虎等大公司的鼓励和投资。
• The UNCTAD also regarded China, together with the US, as the two powerhouses of the world economy.
  联合国贸发会议将中国和美国并称为世界经济两大火车头。
• The growing economic power of Japan, one of the first Asian export powerhouses, raised concerns in the US about unfair currency valuations.
  日本是亚洲最早的出口大国之一，其迅速增长的经济实力，引发了美国对于货币估值有失公允的担忧。
• The market meltdown partly reflected investor worries about the possibility of economic slowdown in two global powerhouses, the US and China.
  此次市场暴跌部分反映了投资者的担忧：作为全球两大经济强国，美国和中国的经济可能放缓。
• These graduates, formerly hand-picked students, are now global powerhouses.
  这些毕业生，过去也是被精挑细选到这所学校里来的，如今已经在世界上占有一席之地了。
• Some of these research powerhouses are already making significant progress in therapeutic applications of biotechnology.
  其中一些强大的研究机构已经在生物技术的治疗应用方面取得了显著的进步。
• Nor could stellar slam dancing explain the narrow jets that emanate from the central powerhouses of many quasars.
  而恒星的碰碰舞也无法解释许多类星体活跃的核心所放射出的狭长喷流。
• Comparative study of three large underground powerhouses in West China
  西部三大水电工程地下厂房研究比较