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词汇 powerhouse
释义 powerhouse
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈpaʊə.haʊs/ us /ˈpaʊ.ɚ.haʊs/
a country, organization, or person with a lot of influence, power, or energy: 强国;权势集团;显贵;身强体壮的人;精力充沛的人
Germany is an economic powerhouse.德国是经济强国。
The university is no longer the academic powerhouse that it once was.这所大学今非昔比,已不再是学术巨人了。
She's a powerhouse of original ideas and solutions.她总有许多独到的见解和具有创意的点子。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People in charge of or controlling other people
acephalous
administrator
anti-management
authority
bureaucrat
controller
council
counter-power
dean
deputy
manipulator
mistress
movers and shakers
multi-headed
officer
tsar
vice presidency
vice president
vicegerency
vicegerent

powerhouse | American Dictionary


powerhouse
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpɑʊ·ərˌhɑʊs/
a person, organization, or country with a lot of energy, power, or influence:
The country is the economic powerhouse of the European Union.

powerhouse | Business English


powerhouse
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpaʊəˌhaʊs/us
a country or an organization that has a lot of influence, power, or energy:
corporate/economic/financial powerhousesAnalysts still believe that China and India will become the economic powerhouses of the world.
a marketing/media/publishing powerhouse
a person who has a lot of strength and energy:
He was a powerhouse of ideas.

Examples of powerhouse


powerhouse
Several small structures, described as treatment buildings, are situated to the east, and downslope, of the powerhouse.
The other emission sources were assumed to produce the same emissions as the powerhouse generator (discharged at about 6 m above ground level).
This includes cost for civil works (dam, roads, buildings and communication for the project), electrical works (powerhouse and transmission), and establishment costs.
A thrilling powerhouse of a scherzo, this self-contained, self-generating piledriver of a piece is addictive and riveting - in every sense.
The mathematical simulations of the various elements of the system provide data relating to tunnel length, dam volume, powerhouse depth, and energy output.
Our bodies fumble or dance their way through life as powerhouses of making and meaning.
He was just getting started, was a fountain of ideas, a powerhouse of energy, and had unsurpassed technique and mastery of experimental science.
It was also a cultural and social powerhouse, and it had the capacity to generate wealth unlike anything that had been seen before.
Three 10,000 l fuel tanks are located on the northern side of the powerhouse.
The quantity of soil contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons in the vicinity of the powerhouse, however, was estimated to be between 200 and 600 tonnes.
Emission sources on station are the powerhouse generators, boilers, heaters, and vehicles.
First, the region is an economic powerhouse.
Variable parameters within the model are therefore: site, mode of operation, dam type, dam height, material type, period of generation, pressure tunnel length, and powerhouse depth.
They were now able to create financial powerhouses that could rival, or more likely surpass, the influence of the old banqueros, who had operated within a specialised banking system.
London was an industrial powerhouse.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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