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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• When Gibraltar, a British overseas territory on the Iberian Peninsula claimed by Spain, tried to join FIFA, Spain threatened to pull all of its teams including the powerhouses of Barcelona and Real Madrid from the European Champions League and international football.
  直布罗陀是英国在伊比利亚半岛的海外领土，西班牙一直声称对其拥有主权。当直布罗陀试图加入FIFA时，西班牙威胁从欧冠联赛和国际比赛中撤回所有西班牙球队，包括巴塞罗那和皇家马德里这样的强队。
• For the world's economies to recover, these two economic powerhouses must co-operate, they said.
  世界各经济体要实现复苏，这两个经济大国必须合作。
• Meanwhile, traditional videogame powerhouses like Electronic Arts and Nintendo have seen revenues stagnate and fall.
  与此同时，美国艺电（ElectronicArts）和日本任天堂等传统的视频游戏开发商的营收，则处于停滞和下滑窘境。
• South Korea and Taiwan, two emerging industrial powerhouses, together have a larger market cap than Germany, and Brazil has a larger market than Australia.
  两个新兴工业巨头韩国和台湾的市值超过了德国，巴西的市值则超过澳大利亚。
• 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。
• That could provide them with sufficient backing for their capital markets divisions, which can be revenue and profit powerhouses in good times.
  这可以为它们的资本市场业务提供充足的资金支持&这块业务在繁荣时期会成为重要的收入和利润来源。
• 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。