(noun.) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; 'in spite of their weakness the group remains active'.

(noun.) a feeling of being unable to manage.

(noun.) the state of needing help from something.

手打:溫迪

• But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• The appeal of her helplessness touched in him, as it always did, a latent chord of inclination. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• The loneliness and helplessness of the woman touched me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The utter helplessness of the wreck of him that lay cast ashore there, now alarmed her, but he himself appeared a little more hopeful. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• I am strong, strongly, disinclined to avail myself of your generosity, though my helplessness yields. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Yet if helplessness were all there were in dependence, no development could ever take place. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• I wondered over our helplessness, for I was during a period one of those officials. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• On this side his helplessness is almost complete. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• The effect of that upon young Barnacle was to make him a wonderful spectacle of failure and helplessness. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• And Birkin, watching like a hermit crab from its hole, had seen the brilliant frustration and helplessness of Ursula. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• All the while her eyes, in which the tears had not yet dried, were dilated as if in a kind of swoon of fascination and helplessness. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Her resolution not to enter on the question with him, and his knowledge of her indomitable character, enhanced his sense of helplessness. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• The man shuddered as he meditated upon the awful gravity, the fearful helplessness, of their situation. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In answering her I committed a fatal error--I let the exasperating helplessness of my situation get the better of my self-control. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.

編輯:羅達