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英语单词 helpless
英美音标 英 ['helpləs] 美 ['helpləs]
中文释义 adj.无助的;无依靠的
英语例句 (1) Girls just love helpless animals.
(2) In other words, they make him feel less helpless in the face of adversity.
(3) They are helpless, drifting wherever the currents and tides take them.
(4) Fate was kind to the helpless baby.
中文例句 (1) 女孩子就是喜欢无助的动物。
(2) 换句话说,他们让他在面对逆境时不再感到那么无助。
(3) 他们无所依凭,随波逐流。
(4) 这个无依无靠的婴儿命里注定不该死。
vocabulary简明 To be helpless is to have no ability to take care of or protect yourself from harm. A newborn baby is helpless, and needs parents to care for her.
vocabulary扩展 If you're helpless, you're dependent on other people to assist or care for you. Breaking both your legs will leave you helpless, and even being in an unfamiliar city can make you feel helpless as you wander around looking for your hotel late at night. You can also use helpless to mean "irresistible" or "uncontrollable," especially when someone bursts out laughing: "They broke into helpless laughter during his speech."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]无助的;无力量的;无能力的;不由自主的 If you are helpless, you do not have the strength or power to do anything useful or to control or protect yourself.
  [oft ADJ to-inf]
  • Parents often feel helpless, knowing that all the cuddles in the world won't stop the tears...

    父母经常感到无能为力,因为他们知道无论多少次拥抱也无法止住眼泪。

  • Children are dying, and I am helpless to do anything...

    孩子们已奄奄一息,而我却无力做任何事情。

  • Once aboard we were soon helpless with laughter at the absurdity of it...

    一上飞机我们就按捺不住,大笑起这事的荒唐。

  • They are not merely helpless victims.

    他们并非无助的受害者。

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  • Their son watched helplessly as they vanished beneath the waves.

    他们的儿子无助地看着他们消失在大浪中。

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  • I remember my feelings of helplessness.

    我记得自己无能为力的感觉。

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