When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isn't biting her nails just yet.

经济发展速度开始减慢时，艾琳·斯派罗还不至于束手无策。

Nothing we can do to comfort him.

我们对他的痛苦束手无策。

Uncertainty and subjectivity are inevitable, says Mr Silver. People should not get hung up on this, and instead think about the future the way gamblers do, " as speckles of probability" .

塞尔维尔说，不确定性和主观性是难以避免的，人们不必因此而感到束手无策。

But there is little that ministers can do. The chip drought is the result of the covid-19 pandemic interacting with an industry that is notoriously prone to cycles of boom and bust.

但部长们对此也束手无策。这次芯片短缺是新冠疫情和一个以兴衰周期闻名的行业相互作用的结果。

Shoppers, they found, much prefer getting something extra free to getting something cheaper. The main reason is that most people are useless at fractions.

他们发现，购物者们更喜欢赠胜过打折。主要原因在于多数人对分数运算束手无策。

Like some leaders today, the officials who must confront it are vacillating and helpless.

官员们必须去面对这个袭击者，他们像今天的一些领导人一样，摇摆不定，束手无策。

Doctor Caroline mills and her team received this patient and didn't really know what to do about it.The man had cut his finger, he worked processing chickens，and then he started to smell really, really bad.

卡洛琳·米尔斯医生和她的团队接收了这位病人，却束手无策。这位手指受伤的男人，他的工作是处理鸡肉，受伤之后他非常非常臭。

It may seem overwhelming, but it is possible.

这虽然令人感到束手无策， 但却依然有一线希望。

And there're aren't as many protections for you if you get hacked, scammed out of your money or locked out of your account.

并且万一你的钱被黑客骗走，或者账户被黑客冻结，基本上只能束手无策。

And that will be unmanageable in very many places.

这将在很多地方束手无策。

“Their hearts must be husks, ” he sneered inwardly, as he observed the antics of the young parents around him, “shrivelled by the demands of these mewling offspring! ”

“他们的心肯定都成了空壳，”看到周围年轻父母们的滑稽行为，他暗自讥笑道，“被这些啼哭着的娃娃们弄束手无策！”

Yes, plastic bags. I think they're useful, but they're getting out of hand– and that means not under control. They're taking over my kitchen!

是的，塑料袋。我觉它们很有用，但是现在它们太多了，我都对它们束手无策了。Out of hand意思是失控。它们已经占领了我的厨房！

But you can't run away from your genetics.

但是遗传让你束手无策。"

Her parents did not know what to do.

她的父母束手无策。

There's one bacterium that has honey's number — but only sort of.

有这么一类细菌能让蜂蜜束手无策，但也寥寥数种。

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

结果，什么也没化，辉格党看起来束手无策。

Their mothers rush in but can do nothing but watch.

它们的母亲们急忙赶来，却束手无策，只能在一旁观看。

Harry felt horribly powerless without his own wand as he watched her.

哈利看着她时，觉自己离了魔杖真是束手无策。

Suddenly, they had a lot of " uglies" and nothing to do with them.

突然间，他们有了很多" 丑八怪" 并且对此束手无策。

In too many cases, we simply don't know.

很多时候，我们真的束手无策。