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strength AHD[strĕngkth, strĕngth, strĕnth] D.J.[streŋkθ, streŋθ, strenθ]K.K.[strɛŋkθ, strɛŋθ, strɛnθ]n.（名词）- The state, property, or quality of being strong.力量：有力的状态，特征或品质
- The power to resist attack; impregnability.反抗力；难以攻破
- The power to resist strain or stress; durability.强度：抵抗张力或压力的力量；忍耐性
- The ability to maintain a moral or intellectual position firmly.意志力：坚决地维护道德或思想立场的能力
- Capacity or potential for effective action:活力：有效的行动的能力或潜能：a show of strength.活力的显示
- The number of people constituting a normal or ideal organization:人力：组成一个规范的或完美的组织结构的人数：The police force has been at half strength since the budget cuts.自从预算削减后，警力只剩下一半
- Military capability in terms of personnel and materiel:兵力：人员或装备的军事实力：an army of fearsome strength.一支有着令人害怕之实力的军队
- A source of power or force.力量的来源
- One that is regarded as the embodiment of protective or supportive power; a support or mainstay.支持者：被认为代表保护或支持力量的人；支持人或维护人
- An attribute or a quality of particular worth or utility; an asset.长处，优点：特殊价值或用途的特点或品质；长处
- Degree of intensity, force, effectiveness, or potency in terms of a particular property, as:…的度：从某一特殊特点来说的强度、力量、有效性或效力，如：
- Degree of concentration, distillation, or saturation; potency.浓度：集中度，浓度，饱和度；效力
- Operative effectiveness or potency.效能：运作的有效性或潜力
- Intensity, as of sound or light.强度：如声音或光线的，强度
- Intensity or vehemence, as of emotion or language.激烈度：如感情或语言的强烈程度或猛烈程度
- Effective or binding force; efficacy:功效：有效力或结合力；效力：the strength of an argument.论点的有效力
- Firmness of or a continuous rising tendency in prices, as on the stock market.价格坚挺的趋势：如在股票市场价格坚挺或持续上升的趋势
- Games Power derived from the value of playing cards held.【游戏】 牌力：源自于手中所持有的牌的大小的实力
on the strength of - On the basis of:在…基础上：She was hired on the strength of her computer skills.基于她的计算机能力，她被录用了
- Middle English 中古英语
- from Old English strengthu 源自 古英语 strengthu
strength, power, might, energy, force- These nouns are compared as they denote the capacity to act or work effectively.当这些名词指有效地行动或工作的能力时，它们之间可作比较。
- Strength refers especially to physical, mental, or moral robustness or vigor: Strength 尤指身体的，精神的或道德上的坚强力量或活力： "enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work" (Rudyard Kipling). “有足够的工作做，有足够的力量做工作” （露德亚德·齐普林）。 "We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength" (Jimmy Carter).“当然，我们是一个有着许多不同的国家。这些不同没有削弱我们。它们是我们力量的源泉” （吉米·卡特）。
- Power is the ability to do somethingand especially to produce an effect: Power 是做某事的能力，尤指产生效果的能力： "I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void" (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).“如果我们没有力量宣布国会法案无效，我想美国不会走向灭亡” （奥立弗·温戴尔·豪尔默斯，Jr)。
- Might often implies abundant or extraordinary power: Might 经常暗示强大的或不同寻常的力量： "With twenty-five squadrons of fighters he could defend the island against the whole might of the German Air Force" (Winston S. Churchill).“有了二十五个连的战士，他能抗击整个德国的空军力量保卫岛屿” （温斯顿·S·丘吉尔）。
- Energy in this comparison refers especially to a latent source of power: Energy 相比较而言尤指潜在的力量源泉： "The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized" (Mary Wollstonecraft).“要是社会秩序良好的话，同样的使一个人成为无所不为的恶棍的性格中的潜力说不定会使他成为一个对社会有用的人” （玛丽·伍尔斯通克拉芙特）。
- Force is the application of power or strength: Force 指力量或力气的使用： "the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence" (Charles Evans Hughes).“用力量和暴力推翻我们的机构” （查尔斯·伊凡·休斯）
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