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

• 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。
• 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。
• Uruguay, Colombia and Chile have rarely looked better equipped to compete with the traditional local powerhouses of Brazil and Argentina to provide an all Latin America final.
  乌拉圭，哥伦比亚和智利很少能像现在这样做好准备同传统强队巴西和阿根廷作战，并一同进入总决赛。
• 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。
• Research is now showing that five spices we've long savored just for their flavor are also nutritional powerhouses.
  现在，研究表明，我们一直为调味而使用的五种调味品也有着重要的营养功能。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。