单词 | helplessly |
释义 | helplesslyadv. In a helpless manner; without help or remedy; without being able to help oneself. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1592 |
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