无能为力

"And when the last fatal malady seizes the being whose untimely grave you have prepared, when she lies languid and exhausted before you, her dim eyes raised to heaven, and the damp of death upon her pallid brow, there you stand at her bedside like a condemned criminal, with the bitter feeling that your whole fortune could not save her; and the agonising thought wrings you, that all your efforts are powerless to impart even a moment's strength to the departing soul, or quicken her with a transitory consolation."

"临了儿，当最最可怕的疾病向那个被你葬送了青春年华的姑娘袭来，她奄奄一息地躺在床上，目光茫然的仰望天空，冷汗一颗颗地渗出额头，这时，你就会像个受诅咒得罪人似的站在她的床前，无能为力，一筹莫展，心中感到深深的恐惧和内疚，恨不得献出自己的一切，以便给这个垂死的生命一点点力量，一星星勇气。"

If we truly accepted our helplessness over others, would we continue to get angry at them?

如果我们真正接受自己对影响改变他人的"无能为力"，那我们还会继续对他们感到愤怒吗？

Sorry, I am not in a position to do that for you; my hands are tied.

抱歉，以我的职位与立场，无能为力

She was stirred by this thought, angered by that -- her own injustice, Hurstwoods, Drouets, their respective qualities of kindness and favour, the threat of the world outside, in which she had failed once before, the impossibility of this state inside, where the chambers were no longer justly hers, the effect of the argument upon her nerves, all combined to make her a mass of jangling fibres -- an anchorless, storm-beaten little craft which could do absolutely nothing but drift.

她想到自己的不是，赫斯渥的不是，杜洛埃的不是，又想到他们各自对自己的情意和帮助。她想到出外谋生的艰难--她已经失败过一次了。她又想到不可能再留在这里了，她已经没有资格住在这些房间里了。这些思绪再加上吵架给神经带来的压力，使她的思想就像一团乱麻，理不出个头绪来--一条没有锚的小船受风雨的摆布，除了随波逐流，无能为力。

We all want a better day for ourselves and our ancestries, especially if our ancestry has lead us to experience trauma, or feel powerless, or small, in the dance of life.

我们都希望为自己和我们的后代创造一个更美好的明天，尤其如果我们的祖先让我们在生活之舞中体验了创伤、无能为力、渺小的话。

Under this kind of background, accumulates the poor deterioration the Qing government often to have "the principle" not to have "the strength", in intriguing, actually in the result difficult material diplomatic dispute is "overreaches oneself""argues strongly based on reason", or Gansu recognizes "is helpless" but "compromises for the general interest", through Li Hongzhang diplomacy behavior a series of layer on layer resistance, how better maintenance own dignity analyzes and grasps the body place passive China and the benefit, thus also providing some more precious material and suggestion for the nowadays Chinas diplomatic development.

在这种背景下，积贫积弱的清政府往往有&理&而无&力&，在错综复杂、结果难料的外交纷争中究竟是&不自量力&地&据理力争&，还是甘认&无能为力&而&委曲求全&，通过李鸿章外交行为的一系列重重阻力，分析和掌握身处被动的中国怎样更好的维护自身尊严与利益，从而也为现今中国的外交发展提供更加宝贵的资料与建议。

They feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny.

他们会越来越觉得自己是个牺牲品，无能为力，无法掌控他们的人生或者命运。

I wanted to change the way the club operated, but I was bound hand and foot by rules which had existed for a hundred years.

我想改变俱乐部运行的方法，但我被存在了100年之久的清规戒律所束缚，无能为力。

I think people in this lifetime in a rebirth.

我觉得人在这一生里其实也在轮回。

He had to tie her hands together.

他不得不把她的双手绑在一起。