英语释义

• (of a male) unable to copulate

• lacking power or ability;

  "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson

  "felt impotent rage"

片语

impotent rage于事无补的狂怒

impotent leadership不得力的领导

Impotent Healer无力的医生

the Impotent无能者

Impotent Fury出版者

impotent industry弱质产业

weak[经] 疲软的；虚弱的；无力的；不牢固的

impotent a无力的

so impotent如此无能

useless无用的；无效的

英汉例句

• in mr greenspan’s telling, central banks were innocent and impotent bystanders in a global macroeconomic shift.

  根据格林斯潘的说法，中央银行并无责任，它在这场全球宏观经济的变化面前只是个无能为力的旁观者。

• the surge of impotent rage in gaza over israel’s violence will momentarily boost hamas’s standing, but gazans may then ask what brought them to this awful pass.

  加沙这种无力的愤怒可能短时间可以提高哈马斯的地位，然而加沙人不久就会为自己这样一个可怕的决定而感到不知所向。

• yet the arab leaders「 inability to protect the lebanese people makes them look impotent on the regional stage and weak at home.

  但阿拉伯领导们无力保障黎巴嫩人民，使他们在该地区显得无能，在家显得软弱。

• the g8 is not the only global club that looks old and impotent (see article).

  g8集团并不是唯一看起来老式和无能的全球俱乐部。

• watching 「iron felix」 sway in mid-air, mr kondaurov, who had served in the kgb since 1972, felt betrayed 「by gorbachev, by yeltsin, by the impotent coup leaders」.

  看到空中晃来晃去的「钢铁费力克斯」，从1972年开始在克格勃任职的孔道洛夫感到「被戈尔巴乔夫，被叶利钦，被无能的政变领导」背叛了。

• to be sure, the idea that fiscal policy was impotent never entirely disappeared.

  可以肯定的是，关于财政政策是无能的观点从未完全消失过。

• fellow patients include the impotent dae-pyung, compulsive forgiveness seeker gyu-suk, and plastic surgery addict soo-jin.

  同房的病人们包括无能的太平、患有强迫癥的奎锡和对整容上瘾的李秀珍等等。

• instead of living for himself—not selfishly but growing spiritually—man has become the wretched, impotent slave of external reality.

  为了自身而不是活着，不是自私，而是精神上的成长，人已经变得沮丧，无能为力的外部现实的奴隶。

• the frenzy of romeo」s and juliet「s love, the fury of king lear」s impotent lamentation, the all-consuming fire of othello's jealousy, these were the things that roused us to enthusiastic admiration.

  罗密欧和朱丽叶爱情的癫狂，李尔王无力哀叹的激愤，奥塞罗烧毁一切的嫉妒之火，这些都能激起我们热烈的仰慕。

• but russia, for all its assertion of a sphere of 「privileged interests」 looks impotent in kyrgyzstan after rejecting pleas to send troops to stop the carnage.

  俄罗斯虽然坚持在这一地区拥有「特殊利益」，但在拒绝了派兵制止屠杀的请求后对吉尔吉斯斯坦的现状无能为力。

相似词

worthless无价值的；不值钱的；卑微的

abortive失败的；流产的；堕胎的

defenseless无防备的

weak[经] 疲软的；虚弱的；无力的；不牢固的

barren贫瘠的；不生育的；无益的；沉闷无趣的；空洞的

相反词

potent有效的；强有力的，有权势的；有说服力的

potent有效的；强有力的，有权势的；有说服力的

omnipotent无所不能的；全能的；有无限权力的