-扩展释义
adj.
无防御的,无助的,没有保护的
Scientists have found that viruses may sometimes remain inactive for years, but can quickly infect any defenceless cell.
科学家发现病毒有时可处于不活跃状态达数年时间,但是能突然感染任何无防御的细胞。
例句
||1:The latest book on the financial crisis has an odd title.||2:You begin reading “All the Devils Are Here”, a line from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, expecting to encounter satanic bankers and corrupt government cronies preying on a defenceless public.||3:In fact the people who emerge are infinitely more interesting: arrogant, desperate, even clueless—but, with a few exceptions, not devils.
||1:这本最新出炉的讨论经济危机的书有个奇怪的名字。||2:“万魔聚此”,读到这句出自莎士比亚《暴风雨》剧中的对白,你可能会觉得书中讲的应该是穷凶极恶的银行家和与之狼狈为奸的腐败政府官员如何如何侵害毫无招架之力的公众。||3:但实际上里面提及的人物却比这耐人寻味得多:傲慢者、铤而走险者,甚至还有无知之徒,但除了少数人之外,他们都算不上恶魔。
adjective
1.Without defence or protection; totally vulnerable.
‘attacks on defenceless civilians’
‘In the face of such an onslaught, the Germans, military as well as civilians, were, by and large, defenceless.’
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