释义 |
helplessly, adv.|ˈhɛlplɪslɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a helpless manner; without help or remedy; without being able to help oneself.
1594Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. H j a, But if he be thus helplesly [later edd. haplesly] distract. 1755in Johnson. 1855Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 404 They all stood looking at it helplessly. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xiv. 71 The king was helplessly in debt. |