Another common expression, to hold water, is about the strength or weakness of an idea,opinion or argument.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Milton's bogey seems to be the specter hovering over women poets or women writers who may find in Milton an identification of poetic strength with masculinity itself.

弥尔顿的惑众谣言似乎是指依附在女诗人,和女作家心中的幽灵，她们在弥尔顿身上发现,诗的力量与男性力量本身是同源的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For by art", he says in the introduction, "For by art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state, " which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural for whose protection and defense it was intended."

他在引言中说，因为号称国民的整体或国家这个庞然大物,“利维坦“是用艺术造成的，它只是一个“人造的人，虽然它远比自然人身高力大,而是以保护自然人为目的“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Washington Post newspaper described America's growing power this way: "A new understanding seems to have come upon us, an understanding of our strength.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The study found their hipbone strength decreased by an average of fourteen percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

But Gomez ends "Try to Remember" on a positive note, as Gabi gains self-confidence, educates herself and finds the strength to become an independent young woman.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22