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单词 defenceless
释义
defenceless
adjective
UK(USdefenseless)
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/dɪˈfens.ləs/us
/dɪˈfens.ləs/
Defencelesspeople,animals,places, or things areweakandunabletoprotectthemselves fromattack:
没有防卫能力的，不能自卫的
asmalldefencelesschild毫无自卫能力的小孩
a defencelesscity没有防卫能力的城市
They were defencelessagainsttheenemybombs.面对敌人的轰炸，他们几乎毫无防卫能力。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not physically strong
  • weakShe was too tired and weak to finish the race.
  • feebleMany of the pensioners were so feeble they had to be stretchered onto the ship.
  • punyHe was puny as a child.
  • weedyUKI was just this weedy guy who always had his head in a book.
  • frailA frail, grey-haired lady walked slowly down the street.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Weakness and vulnerability
  • Achilles heel
  • at a low ebbidiom
  • be (only) flesh and bloodidiom
  • besomeone'spoodleidiom
  • brittle
  • helplessness
  • house of cardsidiom
  • human
  • impotence
  • impotent
  • soft target
  • submissive
  • submissively
  • submissiveness
  • suggestible
  • watery
  • wetness
  • wimpy
  • wonky
  • wuss
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defencelessness
(Definition ofdefencelessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdefenceless

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It was also the mostdefencelessof the neutrals, requiring added political and diplomatic dexterity to contribute to its survival.
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This was played out on the ground in raw conflict that pitted armed soldiers againstdefencelesslandowners.
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This was you naked anddefencelessin a tiny mean hospital room.
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However, when the family structure fails to protect the positionality of the women, it leaves them relativelydefencelessand immensely vulnerable.
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The fact that other animals are analogouslydefencelesswith respect to humans does not remove the unfairness of such a devils-to-humans relation.
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On a practical level, it made sense to want to avoid the horrors of war, not least because the state was virtuallydefenceless.
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One describes how he was disgusted by the burning alive ofdefencelesspeople in the synagogue.
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Any suspicion that they weredefencelesswomen is swiftly dispelled by the photographs in the book, several of which had this reviewer laughing out loud.
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Yet even while these conditions obtained, singers - at any rate good singers - were notdefenceless.
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This, however, would put humans in toodefencelessa position.
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Most of the water-holes contain cat-fish which would be likely to destroy any small fish introduced, especially when, as in this case, they are also conspicuous anddefenceless.
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I feared that we had been left utterlydefenceless.
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It is the mostdefencelesssection of the community for whom we are appealing.
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This country cannot be left permanentlydefencelesswith the reserves we now possess.
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We are far fromdefencelessagainst the present threat.
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