Helplessness
['hɛlplɪsnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; 'in spite of their weakness the group remains active'.
(noun.) a feeling of being unable to manage.
(noun.) the state of needing help from something.
手打:温迪--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The appeal of her helplessness touched in him, as it always did, a latent chord of inclination. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The loneliness and helplessness of the woman touched me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The utter helplessness of the wreck of him that lay cast ashore there, now alarmed her, but he himself appeared a little more hopeful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I am strong, strongly, disinclined to avail myself of your generosity, though my helplessness yields. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Yet if helplessness were all there were in dependence, no development could ever take place. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I wondered over our helplessness, for I was during a period one of those officials. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- On this side his helplessness is almost complete. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The effect of that upon young Barnacle was to make him a wonderful spectacle of failure and helplessness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- And Birkin, watching like a hermit crab from its hole, had seen the brilliant frustration and helplessness of Ursula. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- All the while her eyes, in which the tears had not yet dried, were dilated as if in a kind of swoon of fascination and helplessness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her resolution not to enter on the question with him, and his knowledge of her indomitable character, enhanced his sense of helplessness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The man shuddered as he meditated upon the awful gravity, the fearful helplessness, of their situation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In answering her I committed a fatal error--I let the exasperating helplessness of my situation get the better of my self-control. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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