potency
potency 英 [ˈpəʊtnsi] 美 [ˈpoʊtnsi]
n. 效能；力量；潜力；权势
名词复数:potencies
- Use the noun potency when you're talking about the strength of something. You could refer to the potency of a drug or the potency of a political leader.
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- n. 效能；力量；潜力；权势
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1. Power and potency come in many fluid forms.
权力和力量有许多不固定的形式。
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2. Tracking my fingertips over his olive skin, I'm struck by the potency and fragility of blood and breath and bone– these intricate, insubstantial casings that separate us, keep us alive.
我的指尖在他橄榄色的皮肤上划过，血骨和呼吸的力量与脆弱同时击中了我——这种繁杂的、脆弱的感觉分开了我们，让我们得以喘息。
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3. But soft power's real potency comes not from what other nations' governments think of you, but what their citizens think.
但软实力的真正力量不在于其他国家的政府如何看待你，而在于它们的民众如何看待你。
- potency (n.) mid-15c., from Latin potentia "power," from potentem "potent," from potis "powerful, able, capable," from PIE root *poti- "powerful; lord."
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