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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh that helpless feymels should be at the mercy of such ruffens!"
-- "Yet now that I am more helpless than ever you go away!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is the most helpless soul just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
-- "Well," said Pittypat, helpless as always in the presence of a stronger personality, "if you think people willunderstand."
-- The helpless wounded succumbed to her charms without a struggle.
-- He was in his mid-thirties, older than any beau she had ever had, and she was as helpless as a child to control andhandle him as she had handled beaux nearer her own age.
-- She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never before met anyone who wasso completely impregnable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe looked at her in a helpless way, then took a helpless bite, and looked at me again.
-- Now, when I saw Joe open his blue eyes and roll them all round the kitchen in helpless amazement, I was overtaken by penitence; but only as regarded him,--not in the least as regarded the other two.
-- After some helpless casting about, Mike brightened and began again:--"He is dressed like a 'spectable pieman.
-- So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
-- It was fine summer weather again, and, as I walked along, the times when I was a little helpless creature, and my sister did not spare me, vividly returned.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the poor young ravens lay upon the ground, flapping their wings, and crying: 'Oh, what helpless chicks we are!We must shift for ourselves, and yet we cannot fly!What can we do, but lie here and starve?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This writer went through all the usual topics of European moralists, showing 'how diminu-tive, contemptible, and helpless an animal was man in his own nature; how unable to defend himself from inclemen-cies of the air, or the fury of wild beasts: how much he was excelled by one creature in strength, by another in speed, by a third in foresight, by a fourth in industry.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are gone to try to do me some good, I know!You are gone away for my sake, I am sure!And how miserable and helpless you will be without me, poor, poor father, until you come back!'
-- It was because he grew so scared and trembling, and because he felt himself to be a poor, weak, ignorant, helpless man (those used to be his words), that he wanted me so much to know a great deal, and be different from him.
-- She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then we must make up our minds to perish," I cried with a helpless sigh.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then as he began to move, in the sudden helpless orgasm, there awoke in her new strange thrills rippling inside her.
-- In her womb and bowels she was flowing and alive now and vulnerable, and helpless in adoration of him as the most naive woman.
-- A helpless silence fell between the man and the woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, at that time, a very amiable and very helpless middle-aged gentleman, who was going out again directly.
-- The doctor was scarcely the kind of apparition to inspire a patient with a sense of absolute completeness, but as he presently delivered the opinion, 'We are as right as we can be, Mrs Bangham, and we shall come out of this like a house afire;' and as he and Mrs Bangham took possession of the poor helpless pair, as everybody else and anybody else had always done, the means at hand were as good on the whole as better would have been.
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