詞彙精選：potential的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
adj.
潛在的，可能的
例句：
The enterprise should pay attention to their future potential income.
企業應該關注其未來可能獲得的收益。
例句：
The firm has identified 60 potential customers at home and abroad.
該公司已在國內外找到60個潛在客戶。
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The dispute has scared away potential investors.
這一爭端嚇走了潛在的投資者。
電勢的，電位的
例句：
The potential difference belongs to the field of physics.
電位差屬於物理領域。
例句：
But really, it's a chemical potential idea.
但事實上，這是一個化學勢的概念。
n.
可能性，潛在性 [U]
例句：
We ignore the potential of rain.
我們忽略下雨的可能性。
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We often underestimate the potential of people.
我們總是低估了人的潛在性。
潛力，潛能 [U]
例句：
People under stress tend to express their full range of potential.
處於壓力下的人容易發揮自己全部的潛力。
例句：
They use the wind energy potential.
他們使用風能潛勢。
電勢，電位 [U]
例句：
The plate current decreases when plate potential increases.
當極板電勢增加時極板電流反而降低。
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Electrical potential is also commonly known as voltage.
電勢也就是所謂的電壓。
二、詞義辨析：
latent,potential
這兩個形容詞均含“潛在的”之意。latent指存在但看不見的現象或潛在的性質。potential強調潛在的可能性或能力。
三、相關短語：
potential energy
n. 勢能
action potential
動作電位
elastic potential energy
彈性勢能
electric potential
n.電勢，電位
evoked potential
誘發電位，誘發性電位，觸發電位
potential difference
n. 位差；勢差
potential divider
分壓器
potential drop
電位降，磁勢降
resting potential
休止電位，靜態電位，靜態電位，靜息電位，靜息電位
四、參考例句：
Education develops potential abilities.
教育能開發人的潛能。
Your potential can be limitless.
你的潛力是無窮的。
We ignore the potential of rain.
我們忽略下雨的可能性。
Factory managers understate their potential output.
工廠的管理人員少報他們的潛在產量。
A potential for bioterrorism sobers well-informed realists.
自殺性恐怖事件讓消息靈通的現實主義者們警醒。
The firm has identified 60 potential customers.
We often underestimate the potential of people.
我們總是低估了人的潛在性。
The dispute has scared away potential investors.
這一爭端嚇走了潛在的投資者。
This update corrects that potential error.
此次更新糾正了那個潛在錯誤。
The company has identified 60 potential customers.
該公司已確定了60位潛在的客戶。
