Impotent
['ɪmpət(ə)nt] or ['ɪmpətənt]
解释:
(adj.) lacking power or ability; 'Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent'- Freeman J.Dyson; 'felt impotent rage' .
(adj.) (of a male) unable to copulate .
富兰克林校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
(a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.
(a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.
(n.) One who is imoitent.
编辑:露西尔
同义词及近义词：
a. Powerless, unable, incapable, incompetent, disabled, incapacitated, imbecile, weak, feeble, infirm, frail, inefficient.
校对:菲利斯
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Weak, powerless, useless, feeble, helpless, nerveless, enfeebled
ANT:Strong, vigorous, powerful, virile
布雷特整理
解释:
adj. powerless: without sexual power: wanting the power of self-restraint.—ns. Im′potence Im′potency.—adv. Im′potently.
布伦达编辑
例句:
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If I sit here thinking of him, snarls the old man, holding up his impotent ten fingers, I want to strangle him now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He mocked the youth, with an acid ridicule, that made Leitner red in the face and impotent with resentment. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It bit and clawed and scratched in impotent fury. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It is a similar case, where any real quality is, by accidental circumstances, rendered impotent, and is deprived of its natural influence on society. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Let him writhe, in impotent malice, as we pen the words, _We will be there_. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Not so much pain now; but I am hopelessly weak, and the state of my mind is inexpressible--dark, barren, impotent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- First Born, I cried, turning to those who stood within the chamber, you have seen to-day the impotency of Issus--the gods are impotent. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- As against it, or as compared with it, the conscious ideas and preference of individuals are impotent. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The poverty which reduces an Irish girl to rags is impotent to rob the English girl of the neat wardrobe she knows necessary to her self-respect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Nothing, indeed, thought I, as I struggled to repress a sob, and hastily wiped away some tears, the impotent evidences of my anguish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- There he hung helpless for a moment, glaring up at me in impotent rage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me--impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But, in the detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- That man, properly handled, must ever remain impotent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It proved to her that she had no heart to be touched: it reminded her where she was impotent and dead. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A merely impotent being has to be carried, forever, by others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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