The twin lights, the shifting grey and the steadfast red, mastered the Water Rat and held him bound, fascinated, powerless.
变幻莫测的灰色和坚定不变的红色，这两道光芒控制住了河鼠，使他处于动弹不得，痴痴迷迷，又无能为力的状态。
It seems hard to believe that we can deal with more serious diseases yet are powerless against something so common as a cold.
让人难以相信的是，我们能够治疗更严重的疾病，却无力对抗像感冒这样常见的疾病。
The bank has done this even though its advisors say the dam will cause hardship for the powerless and environmental destruction.
尽管世界银行的顾问说大坝会给弱势群体带来困难，破坏环境，但世界银行还是这样做了。
Teenagers climbed dozens of flights of stairs to deliver water and food to elderly people trapped in powerless high-rise buildings.
青少年爬上几十层楼梯，给困在高层建筑中无助的老年人送水和食物。
Fear is powerless. And joy lies in taking risks.
恐惧是无力的，快乐蕴含在冒险中。
The notion that they're utterly powerless suddenly seems unrealistic not to mention rather annoying so they're prompted instead to generate ideas about how they might change things.
他们完全无能为力的想法突然变得不现实，更不用说令人讨厌了，所以他们反而会产生自己可能可以改变事情的想法。
Likewise, Obama may be powerless to cut weapons spending.
同样，奥巴马可能也无法削减武器开支。
Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile.
死亡本身无法止住一个记忆中的声音，或擦除一个记忆中的微笑。
Gender inequality makes many women powerless to stop men smoking at social gatherings.
由于男女不平等，致使许多妇女无法制止男性在社交场合吸烟。
The idea that you're too small or too powerless to create change is the biggest reason for inaction.
认为自己很渺小或者没有能力促成改变的想法是我们反应迟缓的主要原因。
These are matters which affect you deeply and which can stir up anger inside you and so you feel powerless.
这些是能深入影响并能激起你心中愤怒的事情，你因而感到无能为力。
White southerners bitterly opposed the changes imposed on them from outside, but were powerless to prevent them.
南部白人对外部强加的改变很反感，但又无力抵抗。
The oil prevents the slick bodies of the snakes from crawling out of their holes. They're powerless to harm my sheep.
蛇的身子沾上油后变得滑溜溜，就爬不出洞来伤害我的羊了。
When he was seventy-five, he felt powerless to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others.
75岁时，他感到力不从心，因此转让了自己创立的品牌和专利。
Or are we on a collision course with some future crisis whose advancing outlines we can dimly perceive but seem powerless to stop?
或者我们真的是在一个有着一些可察觉却无力改变的未来危机的碰撞航线上？
Stand up for someone. Lend your voice. Often the powerless, the homeless, the neglected in our world need someone to speak up for them.
援助那些无家可归的无助者，这些被大众世界所忽视的人们需要有人为他们声援。
"It is the age when anyone can make themselves useful," the article read in part. "It gives help to the helpless, power to the powerless."
“这是个所有人都能使自己发挥作用的时代，”这篇文章写道，“可以给无助的人以帮助，给无力的以力量。”
But once we decide that we're powerless, our passivity becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, a habit of mind that's harder and harder to shake.
但是一旦我们认定自己无能为力，我们的消极被动就成为了一个自动实现的预言，一个越来越难撼动的思考习惯。
He argued that the Fed was basically powerless to return the economy to full employment once rates hit zero, which confused me at the time.
一旦名义利率降为零，美联储就毫无办法将经济带回到充分就业。当时我对这个说法感到困惑。
Accurate information, moreover, is not completely powerless to change people's minds; over time, it becomes harder and harder to deny reality.
准确的信息并非完全无法改变人们的念头。随着时间的推移，拒绝承认现实会变得越来越困难。
E : Explain to yourself what Stosny calls your "deepest core hurt" that lies behind the anger, such as feeling unlovable, disregarded or powerless.
E：第二步，自我反省，找出藏在愤怒情绪背后的被Stosny称为“最深层伤痛”，比如觉得没有人爱我，我被忽视了或者我太无助了。
Even those well-intentioned enough to want to do their bit, can quickly find themselves feeling powerless and paralysed in the face of an issue of this scale.
即使那些满怀善意、希望尽自己一份力量的人们，可能也很快就会发现，面对这种规模性问题，自己会感觉无能为力而且不知所措。
Galinsky and colleagues began by asking subjects to either describe an experience in which they had lots of power or a time when they felt utterly powerless.
实验开始时，盖林斯基和他的同事请受试者讲述两种情况之一种：或者是他们拥有许多权力的经历，或者是感到完全没有权力的时刻。
Galinsky and colleagues began by asking subjects to either describe an experience in which they had lots of power or a time when they felt utterly powerless.
实验开始时，盖林斯基和他的同事请受试者讲述两种情况之一种：或者是他们拥有许多权力的经历，或者是感到完全没有权力的时刻。
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