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词汇 puissance
释义 puissance
noun
uk /ˈpwiː.sɑ̃s //ˈpjuː.ɪ.səns/ us /ˈpwiː.sɑ̃s //ˈpjuː.ɪ.səns/

puissancenoun (HORSE EVENT)


[ U or S ](also Puissance)
a competition in the sport of showjumping that tests how high horses can jump over special fences or walls: (马的)越障能力赛
David McPherson on Sheerwater Baghera won the Puissance, the only one of three finalists to clear a 6ft 9in wall.骑“谢尔沃特 · 巴格拉”的大卫 · 麦克弗森在越障能力比赛中获胜,他是三名决赛选手中唯一成功越过6英尺9英寸障碍墙的选手。
They are due to compete in April's British Open Show Jumping Championship, which features international showjumping classes, including the Puissance, where riders face the famous wall - often 7ft high.
Morrissey and Scaraberas finished third this past summer at a Puissance in Dublin in driving rain.
The success of the TV show has revived interest in the sport, and puissance is the hardcore event of showjumping -a sort of equestrian fundamentalism.
Third place went to Norway's Geir Gulliksen on the puissance specialist Alex, who stopped once at the wall before clearing it at the second attempt.
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puissancenoun (POWER)


[ U ]old use
great strength, power, or influence: 权力,势力;力量,影响
a King of high degree, a lord of power and puissance一位崇高的国王,权力与力量的领主
How may I serve the valiant and noble lord whose puissance causes Videssos to tremble?
He plays a cruel-mouthed politician, nastily witty, and for all his apparent smooth sang-froid, inwardly impassioned with the puissance of his position.
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the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldidiom
the upper hand
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Examples of puissance


puissance
After all, it seems inadequate to locate all the sources of our puissance in infancy, as if layers of consciousness acquired since then didn't count.
I chide my children every day to teach them the magic puissance and power of the word "sorry".
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I believe he described it as that final fence in the puissance which people will have to jump.
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His gaze has une puissance (a power), which he tries not to use, since it has brought him nothing but misery in the past.
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Wikipedia

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The first round consists of four to six large single obstacles including the puissance wall, the starting height of which may vary from 1.70to1.80m ftin in height.
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Wikipedia

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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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