At the last cut he makes, his knife-his faithful knife-drops from his little nerveless hand, and ringing down the precipice, falls at his mother's feet!
With a chill despondency, like one awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream, he yielded himself to the physician, and was led away.
带着一种冰冷的沮丧,就像一个从一个丑陋的梦中醒来, 全身无力的人,他向医生屈服了,并且被带走了。
为女权辩护(上)
Shakespeare never grasped the airy dagger with a nerveless hand, nor did Milton tremble when he led Satan far from the confines of his dreary prison.
莎士比亚从来没有用麻木的手握住那把轻盈的匕首,弥尔顿在带领撒旦远离沉闷的监狱时也没有颤抖。
为奴十二年
I endeavored to raise the hammer, thinking to show Ford how willing I was to work, by proceeding with my labors on the weaving house, but it fell from my nerveless hand.
我努力举起锤子,想通过在织布房继续我的劳动向福特展示我是多么愿意工作,但它从我无力的手中掉了下来。
西南联大英文教本
There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.
Cowardice is a trait wherein fear and excess self-concern override doing or saying what is right, good and of help to others or oneself in a time of need—it is the opposite of courage. As a label, "cowardice" indicates a failure of character in the face of a challenge.