We become insomniac or impotent. An eyelid starts twitching.

我们会失眠或是虚弱无力。我们的一个眼皮会开始跳得不停。

Neither America nor the multilateral institutions are as impotent today as Mr Bremmer claims.

其实目前不管是美还是多都不像布雷默所认为的那样虚弱无力。

But being soft and malleable is far from impotent.

但是柔软和有延展性远不是无能。

Mekhala drew close to Ream Eyso, now blind and impotent without his axe.

麦卡拉逼近失明而又无力的雷阿姆·埃索。

As a result, nothing was done, and the Whigs looked impotent.

结果，什么也没变化，辉格党看起来束手无策。

In the face of this barbaric power, all we can ever be are impotent spectators, just like those prisoners in the grim darkness, screwing their necks to get a look.

面对这种野蛮力量，我们只能是个无助的看客，就像那些处于残酷黑暗中的囚犯们，拉长了脖希望能瞅上一眼。

His face was the face of a man drunk with fatigue and impotent rage and burning pity.

从他脸上的表情看，他是深深沉溺在既浑身疲乏又满腔愤怒和热烈同情的感受中了。

She was suffused with a tenderness for her husband and an impotent rage against the man for involving him in a situation so alien and so distasteful to him.

内心充满了对丈夫的爱怜和对这个男人的愤怒，因为这个男人把丈夫卷人了一种陌生和令人不快的境地，但对此又无能为力。

Some decades later, in London, women petitioned against coffee houses, claiming it made their husbands impotent.

几十年后，在伦敦，妇女们对咖啡屋提起诉讼，声称们的丈夫阳痿。

The Russians have hitherto sounded happy to let Syria stew, in the hope that America will look impotent and incompetent.

迄今为止，希望让美看起来懦弱无能的俄人似乎乐于看到叙利亚饱受煎熬。

In my heart I accused my companion of putting forward a most lame and impotent excuse to cover his failure.

我心中对我伙伴用这一点作借口来掩饰他的失败很不以为然。

What is the upside of feeling depressed, or of blowing up a relationship or of being impotent or friendless?

感到沮丧、破坏一段关、充满无能感或没有朋友有什么好处呢？

The unhappy Hook was as impotent [powerless] as he was damp, and he fell forward like a cut flower.

不幸的胡克又沮丧，又无奈，像一枝被砍断的花一样，向前扑倒在地。

The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.

群龙无首。人多嘴杂。就越发鸡毛蒜皮。

If climate policy continues to be this impotent, then carbon-dioxide levels could easily rise so far that even a low-sensitivity planet will risk seeing changes that people would sorely regret.

如果气候政策继续这样软弱，那么二氧化碳的很容易达到即是低敏感度的地球也会发生人们一定会后悔的变化的程度。

Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.

思嘉气得一脚踢开被，想找一句最难听的话来咒骂一声。

He bowed and sauntered off, leaving her with her bosom heaving with impotent rage and indignation.

让一个人气得胸脯一鼓一鼓地站在那里。

Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.

眼看着他们连拿抢，糟蹋破坏，无可奈何地站在那里，满腔怒火不由得把剩余的一点点恐惧也压下去了。

Another thought that stung them to impotent wrath was the knowledge that the Yankees and Carpetbaggers would laugh.

还有一件事得他们生闷气，他们知道北方佬和北方来的冒险家一定会耻笑他们。

Frank was remembering the Tara he had known before the war and on his face was a hurt look, a look of tired impotent anger.

弗兰克在回忆他战前熟悉的那个塔拉农场，脸上的表情是忧伤的、厌倦和无可奈何的愤怒交织在一块的。