Galinsky and colleagues began by asking subjects to either describe an experience in which they had lots of power or a time when they felt utterly powerless.

实验开始时，盖林斯基和他的同事请受试者讲述两种情况之一种：或者是他们拥有许多权力的经历，或者是感到完全没有权力的时刻。

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But yet, we are powerless because we have a form of godliness but no power.

可是，我们却是无能的，因为我们只有敬虔的外貌，没有敬虔的能力。

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Despite its lack of formal power the nobility was not powerless.

尽管没有正式的权力，贵族阶层并非没有权势。

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The Communist Party had the power of life and death over Soviet citizens, but they were powerless to revise or repeal the laws of physics or the principles of engineering.

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