powerless
adj. 无力的,无能的; 无权力的; 虚弱的; 无资源的
Someone who is powerless is unable to control or influence events.
If you don't have money, you're powerless.
如果你没有钱,就寸步难行。
...political and economic systems that keep women poor and powerless.
致使女性一直贫穷且没有权力的政治经济体系
If you are powerless to do something, you are completely unable to do it.
People are being murdered every day and I am powerless to stop it...
每天都有人被杀,而我却无力阻止。
He was sympathetic, but powerless to help.
他表示同情,但爱莫能助。
1. lacking power
Unable to close the distance across the powerless.
非常非常地想念你隔著无法靠近的距离无能为力.
Those people can huff and puff but they are powerless the way things are.
那些人只会满口大话,要改变现状时他们便无能为力了.
I'm powerless to do anything about this.
这件事我实在无能为力.
That time Walter was powerless to protect him.
那时候沃特没有力量保护他.
Henceforth, Germany was split up and in a powerless state for a long period.
德国此后长期处于无权和被分裂的状态.