powerless 的定义
- unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
 - lacking power to act; helpless: His legs crumpled, and he was powerless to rise.
 
powerless 近义词
weak; unable
更多powerless例句
- That left the agency powerless to stop states from filling in the vacuum with their own legislation.
 - In its wake, I let dozens of texts go unanswered, powerless to send a “Hey, catch up later,” but too drained to have a conversation.
 - Living in your powerless homeNow it’s time to think about what life will look like in your survival space.
 - They had to rely on Salsman to be their advocate, to represent them at a time they felt powerless, and instead they were preyed upon.
 - My silence, I realized, was due in part to my sense that I was powerless.
 - He had been scared and powerless to protect himself, and Moscow had been silent.
 - While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.
 - Unable to make it to a hospital, or too afraid, parents are dying at home alongside kids who are powerless to save them.
 - But the malpractice system is not robust in China, and patients feel powerless.
 - Hanifa and her father and mother and brother spent 10 days on the mountain, fearing for the girls, but powerless to help them.
 - As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.
 - But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
 - The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.
 - The man who allows himself to be crucified is no true saviour, because by allowing it he renders himself powerless to save.
 - Now they were fugitive and nearly powerless, and I knew the Zervs were few in number from my own observation.