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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"Don't feel so badly, George, " Mrs. Cary blinked at him in helpless sympathy-sorry and, in the same breath, glad that the little tragedy was almost done.

“别太难过了，乔治，”卡里太太眨着眼睛，同情而无奈地瞧着他——她既遗憾，又高兴：这出小悲剧终于快演完了。

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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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