A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
无能为力
Powerless
Public radio has always been so powerless.
公共广播一向如此无能为力。
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
虽然智力无法改变性格,但它是为自己的弱点寻找委婉语的能手。
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
那些处于弱势地位的人不会抱怨欺负老板、辱骂上司或腐败同事。这样做没有安全的方法,也没有承诺补救的程序。
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
我在撒切尔夫人的领导下长大。在我成长的过程中,我一直认为自己从根本上是无能为力的。后来多年来,我逐渐意识到,这实际上是一个非常方便的国家神话。
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
有人说得对,宇宙中没有什么是不重要的,没有什么是无能为力的;一个原子就可以溶解一切,拯救一切!什么恐怖!善恶之间有着永恒的区别。