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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIX HELPLESS AND HOPELESSIT was not a time for despair, but action.
-- Lady Helena was quite exhausted, her moral energies prostrate, and she fell helpless into her husband's arms.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would be helpless in the hands of a desperate fellow like this Notting Hill criminal, if he could once effect an entrance.
-- The fellow looked at us in a helpless way, and he wrung his hands together like one who is in the last extremity of doubt and misery.
-- We have him, Wat-son, we have him, and I dare swear that before to-morrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day she could not go out at all, and remained at home all alone in the empty hut; but the children very soon became aware of the fact, and nearly all of them visited her that day as she lay alone and helpless in her miserable bed.
-- 'Nastasia Philipovna, I can't; my hands won't obey me,' said Ferdishenko, astounded and helpless with bewilder-ment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned round in a helpless way and took a second glass of the excellent vicar's very inferior sherry.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had laughed at Beth's story, they asked their mother for one, and after a moments thought, she said so-berly, 'As I sat cutting out blue flannel jackets today at the rooms, I felt very anxious about Father, and thought how lonely and helpless we should be , if anything happened to him.
-- As the tears streamed fast down poor Jo's cheeks, she stretched out her hand in a helpless sort of way, as if grop-ing in the dark, and Laurie took it in his, whispering as well as he could with a lump in his throat, 'I'm here.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.
-- It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
-- And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way; and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
-- Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the whale's insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim, though he could still keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as that; helpless Ahab's head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least chance shock might burst.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble regarded Oliver's piteous and helpless look, with some astonishment, for a few seconds; hemmed three or four times in a husky manner; and after muttering something about 'that troublesome cough,' bade Oliver dry his eyes and be a good boy.
-- Oliver could see that he had some power over the girl's better feelings, and, for an instant, thought of appealing to her compassion for his helpless state.
-- But, Oliver felt it not, as it beat against him; for he still lay stretched, helpless and unconscious, on his bed of clay.
-- Oh!as you love me, and know that I have never felt the want of parents in your goodness and affection, but that I might have done so, and might have been equally helpless and unprotected with this poor child, have pity upon him before it is too late!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But unfortunately my own nicety, and the nicety of my friends, have made me what I am, an idle, helpless being.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Deprived of his position, and struck by a few of the involved and baffling forces which sometimes play upon man, he would have been as helpless as Carrie--as helpless, as non-understanding, as pitiable, if you will, as she.
-- Now," he concluded, showing the palm of one of his white hands in a sort of at-an-end, helpless expression, "what shall I do?"
-- She dawned upon the audience, handsome and proud, shifting, with the necessity of the situation, to a cold, white, helpless object, as the social pack moved away from her scornfully.
-- Carrie was still with him, but not helpless and pleading.
-- She was in a most helpless plight.
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