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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was almost moved to batter his foolish head in, as he lay there helpless at my feet.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are, then, lost,' interrupted the hunter, 'and have found how helpless 'tis not to know whether to take the right hand or the left?'
-- Left by their guide, the travelers remained a few minutes in helpless ignorance, afraid even to move along the broken rocks, lest a false step should precipitate them down some one of the many deep and roaring caverns, into which the water seemed to tumble, on every side of them.
-- While, therefore, he sustained an outward appearance of calmness and fortitude, his heart leaped into his throat, whenever any of their fierce captors drew nearer than common to the helpless sisters, or fas-tened one of their sullen, wandering looks on those fragile forms which were so little able to resist the slightest assault.
-- 'You would, then, revenge the injury inflicted by Munro on his helpless daughters.
-- 'Lady,' said Gamut, who, helpless and useless as he was, had not yet dreamed of deserting his trust, 'it is the jubilee of the devils, and this is not a meet place for Christians to tarry in.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seems to me to be possessed by some power which is using him for its own ends, and in whose hold he is as helpless as a fly in a spider's web.
-- He gave me a look of appeal, so that I might put things right, but, unable to control myself, I shook with helpless laughter.
-- "In the end they get you, and you are helpless in their hands.
-- In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he retorted in a kind of helpless desperation.
-- The fountains of her heart were opened; the child, overpowered by the weight of her sorrows and anxieties, by the first confidence she had ever shown, and the sympathy with which her little tale had been received, hid her face in the arms of her helpless friend, and burst into a passion of tears.
-- While she was thus engaged, the merry little man looked at her with an interest which did not appear to be diminished when he glanced at her helpless companion.
-- But, Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms oftenest, God bless her, in female breasts and when the child, casting her tearful eyes upon the old man, remembered how weak he was, and how destitute and helpless he would be if she failed him, her heart swelled within her, and animated her with new strength and fortitude.
-- Give me back my son, to work for these helpless children.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were the helpless people, blunted by constant oppression and temptation, like that boy with the mats, and hundreds of others whom Nekhludoff saw both in and out of prison, and the conditions of those whose lives systematically drove them to the necessity of committing those acts which are called crimes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion!I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash.
-- "At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world.
-- "Still, however helpless the little people in the presence of their mysterious Fear, I was differently constituted.
-- As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.
-- But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The White Queen only looked at her in a helpless frightened sort of way, and kept repeating something in a whisper to herself that sounded like 'bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter,' and Alice felt that if there was to be any conversation at all, she must manage it herself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays.
-- I have said this was the worst thing possible for me, for helpless as she looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like cannon and the blocks trundling and banging on the deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount of her leeway, which was naturally great.
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