My father HAD been left almost helpless after a stroke.

父亲在一次中风后，生活几乎无法自理。

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They are superb swimmers and capable flyers in the stiff coastal winds, though they look almost helpless attempting to take off from the calm waters.

尽管它们从水面飞离时看起来是那么软弱无力，但它们却是出色的游泳者和能与沿海狂风巨浪搏击的飞翔能手。

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Almost forty years later, he told me how humiliated he'd felt running for assistance, how helpless he felt that he couldn't stop his father, how irrevocable his hatred was after that.

将近40年后，他告诉我，当时跑出去喊救命让他觉得有多耻辱，阻止不了他的父亲的暴行让他觉得有多无助，此后他的仇恨又是多么刻骨铭心。

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"Thirty percent of our clients tend to be men, " explained Behare Sahatqija, my esthetician, as she lowered the headrest so that I was almost prone and virtually helpless.

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The Thunder is the league's most athletic team, and yet it was helpless: After almost 10 minutes of this domination, it resorted to a variant of the old hack-a-Shaq tactic, repeatedly fouling the Spurs' Tiago Splitter (a shaky free-throw shooter) to slow the game down.

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He did so out of sheer nervousness, a kind of helpless hilarity, like that of an almost ruined gambler at the blackjack table, risking everything on the turn of a card.

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