四级Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

另一组无助的孩子仅仅因为他们在较容易的问题上取得了成功而得到奖励，但并没有提高他们解决数学难题的能力。

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四级The helpless ones believe intelligence is a fixed characteristic: you have only a certain amount, and that's that.

无助的人相信智力是一个固定的特征：你只有一定的数量，仅此而已。

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四级When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough.

当我告诉一群表现出无助行为的学童，缺乏努力导致了他们在数学上的错误时，他们学会了在问题变得棘手时继续努力。

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高考Egypt and Babylon were both tyrannies, one very powerful man ruling over helpless masses.

埃及和巴比伦都是暴君，一个非常强大的人统治着无助的群众。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

在希腊，在雅典，一个小国中的一个小城市，没有无助的群众。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless.

令人不安的事实是，如果我们不解决工程问题，我们将束手无策。

2008年6月大学英语四级考试真题

四级People can learn to be helpless, too.

人们也可以学会变得无助。

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级Among them is the father of a prematurely born daughter who reported that during the baby’s five weeks in the intensive care unit, “learning how to knit infant hats gave me a sense of purpose during a time that I felt very helpless.

其中包括一位早产女儿的父亲，他报告说，在婴儿在重症监护室的五周里，“在我感到非常无助的时候，学习如何编织婴儿帽给了我一种目标感。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

考研People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to stand by in case of emergency, they were just as confused and helpless as anybody else.

人们害怕离开自己的房子，因为尽管警察被命令在紧急情况下待命，但他们和其他人一样困惑和无助。

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