Stress is more likely to be harmful if you feel helpless to deal with the problem or situation that causes the stress.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

According to the Second Brother, it's virtually impossible for a single, helpless maiden to pass uninjured in this wild, surrounding waste.

弟弟认为，一个孤独无助的女孩想要，毫发无伤的穿过这野外的荒原是根本不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You use "I can't help but" when you feel helpless, when you want to get something across that needs to happen.

当你觉得无助时，或者当你说明需要做到这件事情的时候，你就可以使用“I can't help but”句型。

I can't help but 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The expression "to bulldoze" also means to make someone helpless, usually by using power or threatening violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

They destroy these helpless but stoic humans who are chafing under their tyrannical and unjust and uncaring rule. In the biblical story, when the Israelites told the story, they modified it.

他们把那些在他们残暴，不公平统治下,无助又愤愤不平的人,全部消灭了，当犹太人来讲这个故事时，他们对此做了修改。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Otherwise a child could feel hopeless and helpless to do anything about it.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

在我所有的梦中，在我感到无助和恐怖的时刻，他总是冲向我，一会儿在水中左右摇摆，挣扎。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I watched her for hours, helpless and alone with my breaking heart.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

And now, you're not the driver, you really feel helpless until you notice standing next to you, leaning over the bridge is a very fat man.

但你不是电车司机，你真的爱莫能助,直到你发现，在你旁边，靠着桥站着的,是个超级大胖子。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But she was helpless in the viselike grip of the powerful man."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

You find a baby face in an adult, Leonardo DiCaprio, to be particularly naive, helpless, kind and warm.

你在成年人中发现了娃娃脸，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥，特别天真，无助，善良，温暖。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It meant to make someone helpless, to trick them.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Man is born in a state of the most helpless dependence on other people."

人生来就处在一个极端无助的,依赖别人生存的环境中"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Because now she's also helpless.

因为现在她简直是绝望了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, humans in Genesis are not presented as the helpless victims of blind forces of nature.

因此，《创世纪》中的人并不是,自然盲目力量下无助的受害者。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

猝然突袭，硕大的翅膀拍击,那摇摇晃晃的姑娘，黑蹼爱抚,她的大腿，他的嘴咬住她的脖子，他把她无力的胸脯紧贴他的胸脯。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And so you feel helpless until you notice that there is, off to the right, a side track and at the end of that track, there is one worker working on the track.

你极为无助,直到你发现，在轨道的右侧，有一条侧轨,而在侧轨的尽头，只有一名工人在那施工。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选