Impotence

(noun.) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate.

手打:利奥波德

• And in her conscious impotence she lay shivering, and hated her friend---- A ring at the door-bell caught her to her feet. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He lifted the stick, in spite of her being beyond his reach, and threw it with a hard effort which was but impotence. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For (2) it would only build a wall around impotence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery and impotence of body and mind. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The girl only stared at him with a black look in which flared an unfathomable hell of knowledge, and a certain impotence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The monster saw my determination in my face, and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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