柯林斯英汉双解大词典
impotent /ˈɪmpətənt/ TEM8
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ADJ If someone feels impotent, they feel that they have no power to influence people or events. 无力的
例：The aggression of a bully leaves people feeling hurt, angry and impotent.
恶棍的挑衅让人感到受伤、愤怒而又无力。
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ADJ If a man is impotent, he is unable to have sex normally, because his penis fails to get hard or stay hard. 阳痿的
例：At the age of 40, 1.9 percent of men are impotent.
1.9％的男人在40岁时阳痿。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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For centuries, medicine was impotent and hence unproblematic.
几个世纪以来，医学无能为力，因此没有问题。
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Once impotent due to Cold War rivalries, it has regained much of the authority accorded by the UN charter.
它曾经由于冷战对立而无能为力，现已重获《联合国宪章》赋予的大部分权力。
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She blazed with impotent rage.
她勃然大怒，但于事无补。
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So he curses existence, curses God at having made him so impotent that he can't change the fact that two plus two equals four.
所以他诅咒生存，诅咒上帝让他如此无能,无能到无法改变二加二等于四的事实。
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