"An empowered group of ministers has been set up to study whether any changes in the law are necessary.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Isaiah in this passage is describing a crucial moment in his career, his career as a prophet: the moment in which his lips are cleansed and he is empowered -- divinely empowered -- to speak prophetically.

在这一段里艾赛亚描述了一个他事业上至关重要的时刻，作为一个预言家：在这个时刻他的嘴唇被清洁干净,他被神圣得授权来预言。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Regardless of what we think of the success of that example or of the appeal of the attempt to do such a thing, the amazing thing, I think, is that Milton felt so empowered even to embark on such an enormous project.

他的重建是否成功了我们姑且不论,也不说我们对他的这个雄心作何看法，我认为，不可思议的是，米尔顿觉得自己是如此有力量,他甚至真的开始了这样一项宏大的工程。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He advocates small scale agriculture, neighbors generating power for neighbors and communities empowered by the Internet.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

in the context of a web page. And increasingly that is where the human computer interaction is, and so will you be empowered by terms and not to just to make a website per se but to make an application, something that's of interest to you, something that solves problems, something that lets you tell someone through the most electronic means possible that you saw them somewhere on campus.

以网页内容的形式表现出来,人机交互的运用将越来越多，而且你将学会编程,不仅能制作网站，还能做出应用程序，一些你感兴趣的东西，一些解决问题的手段，还有一些可以让你通过使用,现有的电子手段来分辨出,校园里面看到的一个人的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选