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impotent adj.性无能的；无力的 (1) 手术让他变得性无能。(2) 这个男孩非常无能，连一件简单的工作也做不好。(3) 没有主席的支持，委员会是无能为力的。 Those wacky ancients really knew how to mess with you — simply add the prefix im to the front of potent, which means "powerful," and you get its opposite — "powerless." While Viagra can help when the problems are physiological, an impotent leader has lost his ability to govern. No little blue pill will dig him out of that hole. It can also allude to a certain meaninglessness, such as the music critic who wrote that the easy listening genre of pop was so dull as to be "the soundtrack to impotence."

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英 ['ɪmpətənt] 美 ['ɪmpətənt] (1) The operation left him impotent.(2) The boy is so impotent that he can't do a simple job well.(3) Without the chairman's support, the committee is impotent. Impotent means lacking power or authority. Captain Bligh was impotent in the face of Christian's mutiny. It also refers to a man's inability to achieve or maintain an erection. If a man is sterile, or unable to reproduce, he is also called impotent. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]无能为力的；不起作用的 If someone feels impotent, they feel that they have no power to influence people or events. The aggression of a bully leaves people feeling hurt, angry and impotent...暴徒的侵犯令人们感到痛心、愤怒却又无能为力。In impotent rage he got up and stalked up and down the flat.他怒气冲冲地站起来，却又无计可施，只能在公寓里走来走去。2[ADJ 形容词]阳痿的；性无能的 If a man is impotent, he is unable to have sex normally, because his penis fails to get hard or stay hard.   [usu v-link ADJ]

英语单词	impotent
英美音标	英 ['ɪmpətənt] 美 ['ɪmpətənt]
中文释义	adj.性无能的；无力的
英语例句	(1) The operation left him impotent. (2) The boy is so impotent that he can't do a simple job well. (3) Without the chairman's support, the committee is impotent.
中文例句	(1) 手术让他变得性无能。 (2) 这个男孩非常无能，连一件简单的工作也做不好。 (3) 没有主席的支持，委员会是无能为力的。
vocabulary简明	Impotent means lacking power or authority. Captain Bligh was impotent in the face of Christian's mutiny. It also refers to a man's inability to achieve or maintain an erection. If a man is sterile, or unable to reproduce, he is also called impotent.
vocabulary扩展	Those wacky ancients really knew how to mess with you — simply add the prefix im to the front of potent, which means "powerful," and you get its opposite — "powerless." While Viagra can help when the problems are physiological, an impotent leader has lost his ability to govern. No little blue pill will dig him out of that hole. It can also allude to a certain meaninglessness, such as the music critic who wrote that the easy listening genre of pop was so dull as to be "the soundtrack to impotence."
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]无能为力的；不起作用的 If someone feels impotent, they feel that they have no power to influence people or events. The aggression of a bully leaves people feeling hurt, angry and impotent... 暴徒的侵犯令人们感到痛心、愤怒却又无能为力。 In impotent rage he got up and stalked up and down the flat. 他怒气冲冲地站起来，却又无计可施，只能在公寓里走来走去。 2 [ADJ 形容词]阳痿的；性无能的 If a man is impotent, he is unable to have sex normally, because his penis fails to get hard or stay hard. [usu v-link ADJ]

Impotent Means Power Man Unable People 英 ɪmpətənt] 美