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单词 powerless
释义
powerless
adjective
uk
/ˈpaʊə.ləs/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.ləs/
having nopower:
无力量的；无权力的
Thevillagersare powerlessagainstthearmedinvaders.村民们在武装侵略者面前毫无抵抗能力。
Thepoliceseemto be powerless(=unable)topreventtheseattacks.警方显得无能为力，无法阻止这些袭击。
Synonym
impotent(LACKING POWER)
Opposites
potent
powerful
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powerlessness
(Definition ofpowerlessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

powerless| American Dictionary

powerless
adjective
us
/ˈpɑʊ·ər·ləs/

powerlessadjective(CONTROL)

without thepowerto do something or topreventsomething fromhappening:
[+ to infinitive]Thegovernmentseemspowerless to do anything about therisingpriceofoil.
(Definition ofpowerlessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpowerless

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The powers that previous mayors enjoyed were seriously impeded, and they becamepowerlessto solve citizens' economic and social problems.
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Disruption of these connections leads to despair, perception of life as meaningless, and the self aspowerless.
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But its elements of stability may bepowerlessto prevent the conversion of an institution to a service for which it was never intended.
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All nineteenth-century melodramas suggest a need for radical change in the lives of thepowerlessand the oppressed, and in this they are inherently radical.
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The attention to the practices of performances, therefore, makes clear the policies are not simply acting on passive,powerlessperformers and audiences.
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For most royalists such a settlement promised only a limp,powerlesschurch and a disorienting religious pluralism.
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He is somewhat cognizant of this, especially as he parts with his savings, yet remainspowerlessto stop himself.
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Throughout the ages, political entrepreneurs have sought, often with considerable success, to deflect blame for their country's woes topowerlessgroups.
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Cities were not entirelypowerlessto pursue some forms of aesthetic enhancement, even when those efforts interfered with private property rights.
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Statistics, preeminent among the quantitative tools for investigating society, ispowerlessunless it can make new entities.
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American characters are a problematic locus for identification because they arepowerlessin this novel.
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These developments seem explicable only in terms of powerful factional interests which the primate waspowerlessto resist.
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They will be considered not to have knowledge and therefore will bepowerless.
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Our country has become poor andpowerless, like a broken thread.
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But these portrayals were also double-edged in that they contributed to the passive andpowerlessimage of women.
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