helpless的意思|helpless的解释-里氏词典

helpless ['hɛlplɪs]

a. 无助的, 无能为力的, 无依无靠的

helpless

[ adj ]

lacking in or deprived of strength or power

<adj.all>

lying ill and helpless

helpless with laughter

unable to function; without help

<adj.all>

unable to manage independently

<adj.all>

as helpless as a baby

Helpless \Help"less\, a.
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend
one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless
infant.

How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope.

2. Beyond help; irremediable.

Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of
mind or body. --Milton.

3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]

Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues. --Chapman.

4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]

Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden.
-- {Help"less*ly}, adv. -- {Help"less*ness}, n.

Most with her handicaps remain helpless, passive individuals, unable to do anything but express the most basic needs.
The same is true, at the margin, even of disablement and unemployment. Insurance is based on the principle that an accident, like lightning, strikes a helpless victim.
Her parents and neighbors, helpless, watched the men drag her into the street and fire three bullets into her head and chest.
He said he felt helpless.
It must be the most intense torture there is _ the intense pain of being emotionally helpless." Liz's daughters are growing into strangers.
Then she rocked with helpless laughter at a memory: "I said once, when women were busy 'saving their lives,' that if some women were men they would be rapists, too."
The Roman Catholic Church officially frowns on the practice in this premonately Christian country but is helpless to stop.
But the great pile caught fire and 80 helpless victims died in a second horror.
Three other youngsters were in the unit while about a half-dozen security personnel called by a nurse stood helpless just outside the room, said Rush-Presbyterian spokeswoman Carolyn Reed.
But Norma Phillips, the national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said too many judges accept the concept that drunks are helpless victims of an uncontrollable disease.
When the frontiers are opened investors are no longer helpless victims of the local tax inspectors.
Squaws, helpless from their wounds, were raped even as they died.
But, for those who want to help the oppressed and the helpless, in domestic terms, crime is the communism of the '90s.
In Japan, it is a euphemism for helpless or feeble, mostly because of the "silver seats" reserved for the elderly in Tokyo's sardine-can subway cars.
Kidnappings for ransom are increasing in Karachi, and the belief grows that authorities are helpless against the lawlessness gripping Pakistan's largest and most turbulent city.
Their hot incest (the axis of the plot) becomes not the depths of privileged decadence but a helpless continuation of nursery delights, a retreat from the demands of the sophisticated adult world.
"I feel totally helpless in this sham of a system," said Abu Leban's attorney, Jonathan Kuttab, a Palestinian who graduated from the University of Virginia law school in Charlottesville.
Smith said he felt helpless while his wife and daughter underwent surgery.
"We abhor this senseless act of terror and call again on all sides to the conflict to refrain from inflicting violence on helpless and innocent men, women and children," Hart said.
Medicine now stands helpless before this apparent design of nature, he said.
I felt so helpless watching this go on," said the woman, who declined to give her name.
We diners will watch helpless as what we fail to eat is swept away, to be thrown into bins of sheer wastage; while the children silently, incredulously, watch us. There will not be a tea-urn in sight; nor even the simplest slice of bread-and-butter.
Painting him as hapless and helpless won't be easy.
Those were kids in there _ they were helpless." Two 8-year-old girls were fatally shot and seven children and two teachers were wounded, including Mrs. Finkbeiner, who was hit in the mouth and whose jaw remained wired shut.
"In the minds of ordinary people we appear helpless before the military.
You would react quite differently if you heard that elderly residents, confused and helpless, had fallen victim to unscrupulous managements of laxly regulated establishments.
The search for a mysterious "monster from the black lagoon" that may be gobbling helpless baby ducklings in a downtown nature pond ended Friday with the sighting of two well-fed catfish swishing lazily through the shallows.
With the ship helpless and taking hundreds of hits, its sinking was clearly inevitable, he said.
This would include a two-week 'cooling-off' period. Critics of copy plan schemes emphasise that victims of unfair agreements should not assume they are helpless.
Once the sight of a helpless whale would have been considered a bounty for sailors who plied the Atlantic in search of whales. Today, the ships that roam this area are filled with people longing for a glimpse of the creatures.

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