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.