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

• In the automotive sector, Chinese companies controlled 27 per cent of the domestic market in 2006, compared with the mid-1990s, when they were competing with powerhouses such as GM or Volkswagen, and their share was close to zero.
  在汽车行业，中国企业占据了2006年国内市场27%的份额，而在上世纪90年代中期，在它们与通用汽车（gm）或大众（volkswagen）等巨擘竞争的时候，其市场份额接近于零。
• Winter sports powerhouses Germany, the United States and Austria finished top three in the gold medals table.
  冬季运动项目强者德国队，美国队和澳大利亚队金牌总数名列金牌榜的前三位。
• 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。
• 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。
• Emerging economies are sustaining the pace of growth, but cannot assume the role of global powerhouses unaided.
  新兴经济体仍在保持增长步伐，但无法独力担当驱动全球经济增长的重任。
• These regional powerhouses have worked out how to earn princely sums in the world's poorest places.
  这些地区经济的火车头已经找到了在世界上最贫困的地方掘金的方法。
• Japan and South Korea will join the medal charge from the east, and while the traditional powerhouses of Europe may not be as strong a they once were, Germany, France, Italy and the UK should still finish in the top 12.
  日本和韩国将成为东方奖牌大国。欧洲传统强国或许已不复往日的强盛，但德国、法国、意大利和英国应该仍会保留在前12名之列。
• The train will connect two of China's economic powerhouses with only one stop between them in Nanjing.
  此车次将连接中国经济的两个发电站，整个车程当中只有南京一个站。
• 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。
• 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。