Powerless

(adj.) lacking power .

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• All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Whether he will or not, the seer is powerless to predict: on that subject there has been no open vision. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In this particular, his influence upon her was equally powerless with mine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• With a last faint effort, which would have been powerless but for my yielding to it and assisting it, he raised my hand to his lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He stood for a moment and looked at her, powerless and torn with pity, as a parent regards an infant in pain. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Her hand lay powerless and trembling in mine. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She was as if crushed, powerless in him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Her father sat below, powerless in humiliation and chagrin. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She felt she was powerless, and receded; and again she trembled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• No: she would not be left: powerless to detain me, she rose and followed, close as my shadow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• While wishing this, I suddenly felt colder where before I was cold, and more powerless where before I was weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The Court sits tremulous, powerless: varies with the varying temper of the Esplanade, with the varying colour of the rumours from Paris. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her hand hung powerless; each joint lay bare, so that the light penetrated through and through. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was powerless to contribute either to our good or our comfort in any one thing which did not suit my father's humour. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me--impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He rushed wildly forward, and clenched the old man by the throat--but he was his father; and his arm fell powerless by his side. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She dragged her tottering limbs from the bed to visit her son once more, but her strength failed her, and she sank powerless on the ground. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The holy visitant has for a time slept, perhaps to show me how powerless I am without its inspiration. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In a strange and new sense, I grew most selfish, and quite powerless to deny myself the delight of indulging his mood, and being pliant to his will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In the first case, my lady was powerless to help us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And he was on his guard, she was powerless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In agony the man watched, fearful to launch his spear, powerless to fly. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The individual is nominally free, but he is also powerless in a world bound hand and foot in the chains of economic necessity. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Fine weather, pleasant days, pleasant scenes, are powerless to give me pleasure, continued Caroline. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So situated, she was powerless to check Jo, who seemed possessed by a spirit of mischief, and talked away as volubly as the lady. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Our poor Emmy, who had never hated, never sneered all her life, was powerless in the hands of her remorseless little enemy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When flour and water alone are kneaded and baked in loaves, the result is a mass so compact and hard that human teeth are almost powerless to crush and chew it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Powerless to recover their lost treasure by open force, the three guardian priests followed and watched it in disguise. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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