helplessly的意思|helplessly的解释-里氏词典

helplessly

adv.
无能为力地, 无望地

helplessly

[ adv ]
in a helpless manner
<adv.all>
the crowd watched him helplessly

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.

Rescue divers watched helplessly from the ocean's surface as a 12-foot shark fed on the body of a scuba diver who had failed to return from an outing the night before.
That job is vital to Republicans, who a decade ago watched helplessly as Democrats carved up congressional districts to their advantage.
Though there are different types of alcoholics, Dogoloff said most medical researchers now accept that about 10 percent of Americans have the "genetic vulnerability" to become helplessly addicted to alcohol.
Even standing still, expressionless, years past their prime, the potential havoc those men could wreak was enough to make audiences laugh helplessly.
It will now be tossed to and fro helplessly by developments in industry and in the financial system. So much for prime ministers.
Inevitably, these traits put him at odds with the principal, Ms. Musso (Melanie Chartoff), a dragon lady determined to get Parker expelled and yet helplessly unable to thwart his outlandish excuses, scams and schemes.
Some firms have watched helplessly as the value of their UAL shares gyrated widely, unable to buy or sell for legal reasons.
They may be helplessly stuck. But perhaps, after all, there is really no problem.
Sarah-Jane Fenton, playing Cleo as a Marilyn Monroe of 1938, is first-rate, always quietly writhing in her tight uniform, perfectly catching the girl's accent helplessly exploiting her teeth and eyes.
It is certainly "technologically undistinguished" and, in reality, helplessly dependent upon Western technology (and prestige).
Then he watched helplessly as his premium-priced beer became, he says, just another label in a big catalog of beer, wine and spirits.
Authorities ordered about 2,000 people to stay away from their homes Monday as firefighters helplessly stood watching a butane fire that started when a train derailed and a tank car exploded.
And in Imperial, Calif., county health officer Lee Cottrell helplessly watches over one of the world's most contaminated streams, the New River.
Perry Bolger runs his own operating and exploration company there and watched helplessly as oil rigs were idled.
The couple stood on a hillside and watched the raging flames, waiting helplessly to see whether the blaze sweeping this corner of northwest Nebraska would consume their ranch.
Investors watched helplessly as prices of their little issues plummeted.
They watched helplessly as Redington and Nayokpuk _ and less than two hours later, Joe Garnie of Teller _ powered past them.
Film company members, watching helplessly as the car rounded a corner and struck the officer, rushed to the auto after the driver fled and lifted it off the motorcyclist.

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