As technology becomes ever more potent and Nature reacts ever more violently, there is an urgent need to rethink how best to deal with the growing contradictions between Man and Nature.

随着技术变得越来越强大，自然的反应越来越激烈，我们迫切需要重新思考如何最好地处理人与自然之间日益增长的矛盾。

Beauty is potent, but money is more potent.

美貌固有力，金钱力更大。

Fortunately, its charms are more potent than its arms.

幸运的是，美国的魅力比它的武力更为有效。

That night, Viper found courage, a power far more potent than venom.

那一夜，灵蛇找到了勇气，那比毒液更具有杀伤力的武器。

If you mix the leaves with water and soda, it becomes even more potent.

如果你把叶子和水，苏打混合在一起，那么它会变得更毒。

Anti-terrorism gave way to its much more potent cousin, anti-insurgency.

反恐让路给了其更有力的表亲，平叛。

In fact, they say, we aren't paying enough attention to more potent threats.

他们说，事实上，我们对更严重的威胁没有给予足够的重视。

The article should have stated that it is among the more potent greenhouse gases.

准确的说法是，甲烷是温室效应比较大的气体之一。

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

氮氧化物(一氧化二氮)是一种比二氧化碳强300倍的温室气体。

Suddenly on October 4 the twinge of conscience became more potent than the delights of optimism.

10月4号，很突然地，这种良心上的煎熬在与乐观主义的喜悦对决中占据了上风。

They are present in smaller quantities but are much more potent in terms of the effect they have.

他们目前在数量较少，但更有效的在他们的影响。

You can judge the effectiveness of a US bill by its length: the shorter it is, the more potent it will be.

您可以从一份美国法案的长度来判断其有效性：越简短就越有力。

Now a study finds that some of these more potent pathogens make it onto the surfaces of mobile phones.

现在的研究证实的确有些顽强的病菌附着在手机上。

Moreover, many drugs, including alcohol, are known to be more potent if they are taken in an unusual context.

除此之外，很多药物，包括酒，在人们以一种非正常环境下饮用的时候会产生更大的效力。

More potent fuels will give noticeably more power but may result in increased consumption or engine wear.

更强力的燃料可以带来更强的动力，但是也会更易消耗并且会带来引擎的损耗。

"The triffids are perhaps to us a more potent threat than even in Wyndham's time, " Dr Langford suggests.

朗福特博士表示：“同温德汉姆那个时代相比，对当代的我们来说三脚妖们的威胁更加真实而有压迫感。”

But a more potent story that is only just starting to be articulated is that China is going out to the world.

而更为突出的则是中国走向世界的故事时有耳闻。

And across the whole of emerging Asia, cheaper money has been more potent in lifting spending than in the West.

而且亚洲国家更廉价的货币在促进消费的方面的表现强于西方国家。

Developer Regeneron says this might make it more potent, or require less frequent injections, perhaps every 8 weeks.

研发公司Regeneron表示，它的效力可能会更强，或者不需要那么频繁的注射频率，或许每8周就可以。

Facing down such opposition would make full-throttle privatisation even more potent as a way of bolstering confidence.

面对这些反对派，使得私有化过程加足马力，在增强市场信心过程中越发强大。

On top of that, a lot of methane (a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide) emerges when all this food rots.

另外，当所有这些食物腐烂时，会释放出大量甲烷(一种比二氧化碳更厉害的温室气体)。

Winning games breeds confidence, and now we look more potent and more of a threat I think we will go on and win the game.

赢球带来更多自信，现在我们看起来更加强大更有威胁，所以我认为我们还会继续赢球。

Glass represents how an even more potent challenge has arrived: sophisticated, capital-intensive businesses that boast high-tech expertise.

玻璃代表着一次更强有力的挑战到来：这桩复杂又耗钱的生意可是宣称具有高科技含量的。

Since both of these chemicals are more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide, this effect, too, should help combat global warming.

鉴于这些化学物质都是比二氧化碳更有危害性的温室气体，这一效用同样有助于抗击全球变暖。

Correction: the article originally misstated that methane, at least 21 times more potent than CO2, is the most potent of greenhouse gases.

更正：本文起初对甲烷的性能掌握有误——其温室效应是二氧化碳的21倍之多，是最强的温室气体。

This is about 270 times more potent thancarbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and is released through use offertilisers to grow biofuel crops.

它的温室气体效应强度高出二氧化碳约270倍，是在运用化肥种植生物燃料作物过程中释放出来的。

The Internet is often dismissed as awash with cranks, but it has proved far more potent at debunking conspiracy theories than perpetuating them.

人们通常认为互联网上充斥着怪人，不值一提，但是如今它已成为揭露而非单单记载阴谋的最有力的基地。

Although its lifetime in the atmosphere as a free gas is much shorter than CO2, it is 23 times more potent in terms of its heat trapping ability.

虽然它作为自由气体在大气中的寿命比二氧化碳要短的多，但要说吸热能力，它比后者强23倍。