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

• 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。
• The UNCTAD also regarded China, together with the US, as the two powerhouses of the world economy.
  联合国贸发会议将中国和美国并称为世界经济两大火车头。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nor could stellar slam dancing explain the narrow jets that emanate from the central powerhouses of many quasars.
  而恒星的碰碰舞也无法解释许多类星体活跃的核心所放射出的狭长喷流。
• Traditional grocery stores are reinventing product mixes and creating niches to keep up with the retail powerhouses.
  传统杂货店正重新组合，创造利基产品跟上零售气势。
• Pension funds became the powerhouses of the global economy because they had the money.
  退休基金成为全球经济的动力源泉，因为它们拥有资金。
• The transition of both India and China from rural economies to service and manufacturing powerhouses has moved the locus of global growth.
  印中两国由农业经济体向服务业与制造业强国的转型，一直左右着全球增长的轨迹。
• The UK and France are the two powerhouses of business education in Europe.
  英国和法国成为欧洲商学院教育的两大来源。
• Comparative study of three large underground powerhouses in West China
  西部三大水电工程地下厂房研究比较