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单词 helplessly
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helplesslyadv.

Brit. /ˈhɛlpləsli/, U.S. /ˈhɛlpləsli/
Etymology: < helpless adj. + -ly suffix2.
In a helpless manner; without help or remedy; without being able to help oneself.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adverb] > powerlessly or helplessly
helplessly1592
impotently1611
paralysedly1876
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H But if he be thus helplesly [later edd. haplesly] distract.
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
1855 C. Dickens Let. 30 Sept. (1993) VII. 712 They all stood looking at it helplessly.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xiv. 71 The king was helplessly in debt.
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