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.

其实目前不管是美国还是多国体系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。

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。

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。

You know, the government looked — frankly, looked quite impotent for the past two weeks.

你知道，过去两周日本政府看起来特别无能。

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，声称它使她们的丈夫阳痿。

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。

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

让她一个人气得胸脯一鼓一鼓地站在那里。

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

还有一件事使得他们生闷气，他们知道北方佬和北方来的冒险家一定会耻笑他们。