| 释义 |
strengthless, a.|ˈstrɛŋθlɪs|
[f. strength n. + -less.]
Destitute of strength.
c1200Ormin 12530 Þe deofell wennde aweȝȝ anan For⁓shamedd off himm sellfenn, Off þatt he wass all strenncþelæs Onnȝæn þatt newe kemmpe. 1311Pol. Songs (1839) 255 That lond is streintheles. 1548Udall etc. Erasm. Par. John xvi. 29–33 The tyme is full nyghe that ye shall declare howe strengthelesse ye are of your selfes. 1594Willobie Avisa (1880) 99 You are the chieftaine, that haue layd This heauie siege to strengthlesse fort. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 155 A vaine and superstitious feare of the Popes strengthlesse curse. 1836Hare Guesses (1859) 229 The laws we have imposed on ourselves, knowing how baseless and strengthless they are, we are impatient to throw off. 1857Borrow Romany Rye (1858) I. 166 A time would come when my eyes would be bleared,..my arms..strengthless and sapless. 1883M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xvi, The listener sank back in his chair, white and strengthless, as if stricken with a blow.
Hence ˈstrengthlessly adv. ˈstrengthlessness.
1666Bunyan Grace Ab. ⁋292 (1900) 384 At which times I should have such a strange faintness and strengthlessness seize upon my body that my legs have scarce been able to carry me. 1833J. Robertson Let. in Life iv. (1887) 52 With the exception of some considerable strengthlessness, which makes the chariot wheels drag on accordingly, I may call myself quite well. 1877J. Hawthorne Garth II. vii. liv. 291 The fingers of one hand were fumbling strengthlessly at a grey twist of silky material. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 83 The corruption, the indignity, the strengthlessness of the mortal body, into which at birth the soul is sown. |