网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 helpless
释义
helpless
adjective
uk
/ˈhelp.ləs/us
/ˈhelp.ləs/
C1
unableto do anything tohelpyourself or anyoneelse:
无助的，无奈的
a helpless two-day-oldbaby一个无助的只有两天大的婴儿
Youfeelso helpless because there's nothing you can do to make thechildbetter.你觉得如此无助是因为你没有办法让那个孩子病情好转。
Thegovernmentis helpless (toact)againstthesecrooks.政府无法对这些骗子采取行动。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Weakness and vulnerability
  • Achilles heel
  • at a low ebbidiom
  • be (only) flesh and bloodidiom
  • besomeone'spoodleidiom
  • brittle
  • helplessness
  • house of cardsidiom
  • human
  • impotence
  • impotent
  • soft target
  • submissive
  • submissively
  • submissiveness
  • suggestible
  • watery
  • wetness
  • wimpy
  • wonky
  • wuss
See more results »

Related words

helplessly
helplessness
(Definition ofhelplessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

helpless| American Dictionary

helpless
adjective
us
/ˈhel·pləs/
unabletocarefor yourself orprotectyourselfesp. againstdanger:
a helplessinfant

helplessly

adverb[not gradable]us
/ˈhel·pləs·li/

helplessness

noun[U]us
/ˈhel·pləs·nəs/
(Definition ofhelplessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhelpless

helpless
The fewer forms of expressing grief a community has, the freer but also the morehelplessthe grieving person is in dealing with loss.
From theCambridge English Corpus
By making many of the hungry characters children, authors project adult fears on the more pitiable frame of thehelplessorphan.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The court cannot ignore the pitiable andhelplesscondition of the poor residing in villages.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These neo-utilitarians1 treated agents as nearlyhelplessbystanders in a world they construed as described adequately by reference only to its structural forces.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The heroine has an accident that renders herhelplessand transforms her status on the instant from mistress to victim.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is no script, the garden flows constantly according to the natural law which audiences are alsohelplessto obey.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As such, discourses of 'helplessvictims ' could enable women quietly but persistently to undermine traditional expectations and make political gains.
From theCambridge English Corpus
She describes the overly entrenched characterizations of sopranos ashelplessand tenors as vulnerable and romantic.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such attributions can make the patient feelhelplessand hopeless to exer t control or make life changes, except by taking medications.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This street child ' industry ' generates a mythical stereotype of hungry,helplessorphans at the mercy of death squads.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Youths in the third group will feel both lesshelplessand less guilty than those in the first two groups.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For fate, which could become bearable only by being made intelligible, remains in force (unaufgehoben); we remainhelplesspoints in the midst of infinity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If petitioners themselves did not deserve the secretary-general's benevolence, surely their innocent andhelplesschildren did.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As its potentially humiliating nature, the fact that it makes youhelpless, and its association with the "precarious" all suggest, tickling renders the tickled powerless.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A large consensus even asserts that collisions remainhelplessagainst transverse electromagnetic growth rates.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/helpless##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/28 1:04:22