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单词 pow
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pow1

exclamation paʊpaʊ
  • Expressing the sound of a blow or explosion.

    (突然爆裂的声音)啪!砰!

    Pow! Bombs went off on six beaches at once

    砰!炸弹同时在六处海滩爆炸。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All the mileage he had on that arm built up and… pow… it was almost gone, if not for a miracle of surgery that's near common today.
    • Then, pow, and she was on the floor, and he was standing over her.
    • The offense consisted of pointing a weapon described as ‘a breaded chicken finger’ and uttering the words, ‘pow, pow, pow.’
    • I figured I'd pull my boat the few feet back to deeper water, hop back in, and pow, I'd be off.
    • I went into this little shop, made my way to the back, and then she looked up at me and smiled… pow!
    • And bam, pow, bam… things are going to be so much fun!
    • And - something else most journalists should know - quite often you look away for a moment and pow, there it is on the front page with standardised spelling.
    • He got rocking and talking, rocking and talking, and - pow!
    • You had an idea, took it to a games company and pow… off you go and finish the code.
    • You roll the egg rolls into the lettuce, add whatever suits your fancy, and dip the whole shebang into a bowl of light, sweet dressing - pow!
    • I had to go up and down, with the right hand from the jab, set it out with the jab - pow - right to the body, get back to the head, mix it up.
    • Any pitcher can get overused or take a ball off their head and pow - in an instant the whole rotation or pen has changed.
    • Not only did he once support himself painting billboards, but he makes art that draws upon their color, scale, iconography, and compositional pow!
    • ‘I don't know,’ Greg said, turning about to face her, ‘It started going all funny, sped up, and then pow!’
    • The boy pulled out his toy gun and yelled, ‘Pow, pow.’
    • Compress a vaporized mix of a little gasoline and a little air in a combustion chamber, add a spark and - pow!
    • What's great about a red dress, it has pow, it has immediate sex appeal, it shows you off, it brightens you up.
    • Anyway, my resistance to change collapsed with the appearance on the business scene in North Yorkshire of two new ventures which were designed to inject a bit of zip, zap and pow into my presence.
    • Arthur tells of the loss of an eye in the lunch line at one camp: ‘We are standing and - pow - the end of the whip takes my eye.’
    • They get these snails over there and they just - pow!

Origin

Late 19th century (originally US): imitative.

Rhymes

allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao

pow2

noun paʊpaʊ
mass nounSkiing informal
  • skiing through fresh pow in really cold conditions is my favourite time on the mountain
    short for powder (sense 2 of the noun)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wiping out in deep pow on a shallow gradient is like falling into a pool and not being able to swim!
    • On the other side of the valley we skied laps of pow with Neal.
    • In the soft and cut-up pow, they skied well, but again were a little squirrelly as the tips and tails got pushed around a bit.
    • After a good night's snowfall, you can see dozens of tiny figures trudging up to the snow-peaks, skis on their backs, for that ultimate thrill of untracked 'pow'.
    • You'll need the rest after skiing 2,000 vertical feet of tight trees and pow.

POW3

abbreviationpiːəʊˈdʌbljuːˌpioʊˈdəblju
  • Prisoner of war.

pow1

exclamationpaʊpou
  • Expressing the sound of a blow or explosion.

    (突然爆裂的声音)啪!砰!

    Pow! Bombs went off on six beaches at once

    砰!炸弹同时在六处海滩爆炸。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Anyway, my resistance to change collapsed with the appearance on the business scene in North Yorkshire of two new ventures which were designed to inject a bit of zip, zap and pow into my presence.
    • They get these snails over there and they just - pow!
    • What's great about a red dress, it has pow, it has immediate sex appeal, it shows you off, it brightens you up.
    • You roll the egg rolls into the lettuce, add whatever suits your fancy, and dip the whole shebang into a bowl of light, sweet dressing - pow!
    • Compress a vaporized mix of a little gasoline and a little air in a combustion chamber, add a spark and - pow!
    • You had an idea, took it to a games company and pow… off you go and finish the code.
    • I figured I'd pull my boat the few feet back to deeper water, hop back in, and pow, I'd be off.
    • And - something else most journalists should know - quite often you look away for a moment and pow, there it is on the front page with standardised spelling.
    • The offense consisted of pointing a weapon described as ‘a breaded chicken finger’ and uttering the words, ‘pow, pow, pow.’
    • Arthur tells of the loss of an eye in the lunch line at one camp: ‘We are standing and - pow - the end of the whip takes my eye.’
    • I went into this little shop, made my way to the back, and then she looked up at me and smiled… pow!
    • And bam, pow, bam… things are going to be so much fun!
    • The boy pulled out his toy gun and yelled, ‘Pow, pow.’
    • Then, pow, and she was on the floor, and he was standing over her.
    • He got rocking and talking, rocking and talking, and - pow!
    • I had to go up and down, with the right hand from the jab, set it out with the jab - pow - right to the body, get back to the head, mix it up.
    • ‘I don't know,’ Greg said, turning about to face her, ‘It started going all funny, sped up, and then pow!’
    • All the mileage he had on that arm built up and… pow… it was almost gone, if not for a miracle of surgery that's near common today.
    • Not only did he once support himself painting billboards, but he makes art that draws upon their color, scale, iconography, and compositional pow!
    • Any pitcher can get overused or take a ball off their head and pow - in an instant the whole rotation or pen has changed.

Origin

Late 19th century (originally US): imitative.

pow2

nounpaʊpou
Skiing informal
  • skiing through fresh pow in really cold conditions is my favorite time on the mountain
    short for powder (sense 2 of the noun)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a good night's snowfall, you can see dozens of tiny figures trudging up to the snow-peaks, skis on their backs, for that ultimate thrill of untracked 'pow'.
    • You'll need the rest after skiing 2,000 vertical feet of tight trees and pow.
    • Wiping out in deep pow on a shallow gradient is like falling into a pool and not being able to swim!
    • On the other side of the valley we skied laps of pow with Neal.
    • In the soft and cut-up pow, they skied well, but again were a little squirrelly as the tips and tails got pushed around a bit.

POW3

abbreviationˌpioʊˈdəbljuˌpēōˈdəblyo͞o
  • Prisoner of war.

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