(adv.) in a helpless manner; 'the crowd watched him helplessly'.

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• Dorothea by this time had turned cold again, and now threw herself back helplessly in her chair. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• He is so anxious about us, you see, feeling helplessly shut up there. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Here was a stranger utterly and helplessly at my mercy--and that stranger a forlorn woman. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Here, he dodged backwards and forwards, and did all sorts of things while I looked helplessly at him. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• The scheme is worth looking at for it does do away with the present dilemma of the citizen in which he wonders helplessly whether he ought to vote as a consumer or as a producer. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Ireland had become a land of peasants, blankly ignorant and helplessly priest-ridden. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• He sank down upon the sea-chest, and looked helplessly from one of us to the other. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• In three weeks, you know, said Mr. Brooke, helplessly. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• She seemed to flow back, almost like liquid, from his approach, to sink helplessly away from him. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Such armies as she had were rolling back helplessly toward Paris. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The girls stood still, laughing helplessly at his fury, upon the path beside the hedge. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Her face had become of a deathlier paleness, her lips trembled, and she pressed her hands helplessly on the hands that lay under them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• The tiller-ropes of another vessel were carried away and she, too, dropped helplessly back. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I went into my own little room, and sat down in my chair in a perspiration, and wondered helplessly what was to be done next. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.

整理:梅納德