喜樂美語
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    Not able to protect yourself — having no way to defend against danger, attack, or harm. Used for people, animals, or even ideas that have no protection and can't fight back.

    無力自衛的、無防禦能力的

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組成defense (protection) + -less (a suffix meaning "without") — so defenseless means "without defense".

同家族的字

  • defensedefenseless means without defense
  • defendthe verb form — defenseless describes someone who cannot defend themselves

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

defenselessadj/dɪˈfɛnsləs/

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    Lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack.

    • Her look, her attitude, her words were eloquent of the age-old appeal of defenseless woman to her natural protector—man.
    • On the port tack layline , you're defenseless against starboard tackers — you have to dip them , no matter how much you may lose doing it — and the wind shadow of boats spinnakering away from the mark can cost you plenty.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。