superiority，preponderance，dominant position，goodness，advantage；

[例句] 主队再进一球从而奠定了优势。 The home side rubbed in their superiority with a further goal.

[例句] 任何销售领域的工作经验都是一大优势。 Experience of any career in sales is a big plus.

potential，geopotential ；

[例句] 位势方程在十八世纪关于引力的研究中已显露头角. The potential equation had figured in the eighteenth - century work on gravitation.

[例句] 引入随机正则函数和随机位势函数的概念. The concepts of random regular function and random potential function are introduced.

trend，tendency，drift，current，direction ；

[例句] 这份报告表明，同一趋势也在影响着政治。 The report suggested that the same trend was at work in politics.

[例句] 报告显示，结婚的人数呈下降趋势。 The report shows that fewer couples are getting hitched.

terrain，topographical features，situation，circumstances，lay ；

[例句] 比赛形势决定了他们要打防守战而不是进攻战。 Circumstances dictated that they played a defensive rather than attacking game.

[例句] 我们坐在莉莉的日光浴室里，我把目前形势的细节情况又补充说明了一下。 We sat in Lily's sunroom while I sketched in the situation.

posture，gesture，attitude，gesticulation，poise ；

[例句] 她低头的姿势让人想起皇室风范。 She bowed her head in a gesture somehow reminiscent of royalty.

[例句] 我努力保持蜷曲的姿势以免四肢受伤。 I tried to adopt a curled-up position to avoid damaging my limbs.

physical features of a place，relief，terrain，topography，hypsography ；

[例句] 地势变得更开阔、更平整，风景十分优美。 The landscape became wider, flatter and very scenic.

[例句] 科西嘉岛腹地地势高企，环境荒芜。 The interior of Corsica is high and untamed.

situation，condition ；

[例句] 他们同意互相配合尽一切努力缓解紧张局势。 They agreed to work co-operatively to ease tensions wherever possible.

[例句] 他越来越清楚地认识到引起紧张局势的原因。 He became more aware of the things that started that tension off.

electrodynamic force，electromotive force (e.m.f.)，electrodynamic potential，electromotance ；

[例句] 总之, 感应电动势滞后于电流. In a word, the induced e . m . f . lags behind the current.

[例句] 任何这样的装置称为电动势源. Any such device is called a seat of electromotive force.

[物] potential energy，static energy ；

[例句] 存在着许多势能和动能的能源. There exist many sources of energy both potential and kinetic.

[例句] 最大势能和总能量是 多少 ? What are the maximum potential energy and the total energy?

gesture，sign，signal，dumb show，gesticulation ；

[例句] 那些小青年甩着黑色的长发，做着各种奇怪的手势。 The teenagers shook their long, black hair and gesticulated crazily.

[例句] 他们打着象征胜利的V字形手势。 They were waving V-signs for victory.

power and influence，ascendence，ascendency，lordliness，puissance ；

[例句] 上校倚仗权势让他的中士划船划了一路。 The Captain pulled rank and made his sergeant row the entire way.

[例句] 她唯一的目的就是扩大个人权势。 Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement.

inferior strength or position ；

[例句] 这匹马奇迹般地恢复了状态，以微弱的劣势位居第三。 The horse made a mira-culous recovery to finish a close third.

[例句] 他以微弱劣势败北。 He was just beaten in a photo-finish.

force，power，influence，interest，weight ；

[例句] 极右势力在20世纪80年代有所抬头。 The extreme right reared its ugly head in the 1980s.

[例句] 纳粹主义势力当时正在彻底改变德国。 The forces of National Socialism were transforming Germany root and branch.

offensive ；

[例句] 曼城队将大打攻势足球。 Manchester City will play a more attacking style of football.

[例句] 华而不实的广告攻势 a slick advertising campaign

balance of power，equilibrium of forces，equilibrium，equilibration，equipollence ；

[例句] 各公司正在试图让劳动力市场的均势向有利于自己的方向倾斜。 Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.

[例句] 我们将不惜一切代价维持世界力量的均势. We would maintain the world balance of power at all costs.

the current situation，the trend of the times，the way things are going，current trend of events ；

[例句] 时势不好, 市面清得不成话. Times are bad, the market is dead as a doornail.

[例句] 他不仅是一位时势造成的英雄, 更是一种主要的历史动力. He was no mere creature of circumstance, but rather a prime moving force in history.

momentum，imposing manner，vigour ；

[例句] 圆柱在建筑中通常用来增添气势和显示地位。 Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.

[例句] 看到此处气势如此恢宏，你可能会觉得自己很渺小。 You may feel dwarfed by the sheer scale of the place.

state，situation，posture ；

[例句] 管理层对业务发展的态势充满信心。 Management is confident about the way business is progressing.

[例句] 她知道自己必须采取主动，并且始终保持咄咄逼人的态势。 She knew she had to take the initiative and maintain an aggressive game throughout.

impetus，momentum ；

[例句] 她向该通讯社发起了一场声势逼人的讨伐。 She launched a withering attack on the Press.

[例句] 争取使他获释的斗争声势日益加强。 The fight for his release gathers momentum each day.

have the whip hand (of)，be in a dominant position，dominant，gain [get，be in the ascendant ；

[例句] 会说法语使她比其他候选人占优势。 Being able to speak French gave her a head start over the other candidates.

[例句] 他富有经验,因而较他人占优势. He's got the edge on the others because he has more experience.