helpless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无助的； 无能的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The prisoner was as open in his confidence with me which arose out of my helpless situation as he was kind, and good, and useful to my father.
-- His head and throat were bare, and, as he spoke with a helpless look straying all around, he took his coat off, and let it drop on the floor.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch, a man of great power in the world of politics, felt himself helpless in this.
-- The simple-hearted Marya Yevgenyevna simply roared with laughter at everything absurd the prince said, and his jokes made Varenka helpless with feeble but infectious laughter, which was something Kitty had never seen before.
-- The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance."
-- The recollection of her son suddenly roused Anna from the helpless condition in which she found herself.
-- And Dolly, who had inherited her father's gift of humorous storytelling, made Varenka helpless with laughter as she related for the third and fourth time, always with fresh humorous additions, how she had only just put on her new shoes for the benefit of the visitor, and on going into the drawing room, heard suddenly the rumble of the trap.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He occasionally protested that the Reverend Ira Hinkley was a village policeman and Irving Watters a plumber, that Angus Duer would walk to success over his grandmother's head, and that for an idiot like Fatty Pfaff to practice on helpless human beings was criminal, but mostly he ignored them and ceased to be a pest.
-- He sat alone and helpless while she again turned on Leora and ever more brightly inquired whether Leora knew this son of a corporation lawyer and that famous debutante, this hatshop and that club.
-- He felt helpless without the equipment of Zenith General, its nurses and Angus Duers sure advice.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How many scenes, how many amorous episodes he had imag-ined on this seductive and playful theme, when his work was over!And, behold, the dream of so many years was all but realised; the beauty and education of Avdotya Ro-manovna had impressed him; her helpless position had been a great allurement; in her he had found even more than he dreamed of.
-- 556 Crime and Punishment The wail of the poor, consumptive, helpless woman seemed to produce a great effect on her audience.
-- His tone of assumed arrogance and helpless defiance was gone.
-- He tried to smile, but there was something helpless and incomplete in his pale smile.
-- He suddenly smiled, a pale helpless smile for two seconds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried my mother in a helpless manner.
-- But then, strange to say, when I stoodwith my ragged shoes, and my dusty, sunburnt, half-clothedfigure, in the place so long desired, it seemed to vanish like adream, and to leave me helpless and dispirited.
-- It made me sosorry that I could only say, in a foolish, helpless manner, 'Pray,Agnes, don't!Don't, my dear sister!'
-- Also, in the fact, that the livingresponsibilities clinging to the undersigned, will, in the course ofnature, be increased by the sum of one more helpless victim; whosemiserable appearance may be looked for- in round numbers- at theexpiration of a period not exceeding six lunar months from thepresent date.
-- Call to mind that I am a very helpless and defenceless littlething.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife's: his is a quiet, in-dolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!And what inclines one less to bear, she has no fair pretence of family or blood.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their noise increased to a chorus of baas, upon which Oak pulled the milk-can from before the fire, and taking a small tea-pot from the pocket of his smock-frock, filled it with milk, and taught those of the helpless creatures which were not to be restored to their dams how to drink from the spout a trick they acquired with astonishing aptitude.
-- The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
-- Here, after the lapse of a few minutes, several more fell down, and lay helpless and livid as the rest.
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