be rich and powerful

基本解释

Jaguar knight was an ambitious person and wanted to be rich and powerful.
捷豹骑士是一个雄心勃勃的人，想成为富强。
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If every student can do according to what I said, the country will certainly be rich and powerful .
如果每一个学生都能像我说的那样去做，国家一定会富强！
Soon, they believe, their country will be rich and powerful enough to seize back primacy in East Asia.
他们确信，中国很快将富有强大起来，并有能力夺回东亚霸主地位。

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For users, that means apps are hopefully going to be rich and powerful, but graphically intensive, heavily interactive things -- think games, mainly -- aren't likely to happen.
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She likes the fact that the Chinese are clean and polite—and feels sorry for the ordinary Chinese vendors in the local street-market who seem to be working under the sway of a rich and powerful compatriot.
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