rudderless

1 The seafarers were out on the 50-foot Alboran Cognac when the whales started slamming the hull, eventually causing a leak and damaging the rudder.

2 I’m a great admirer of Mr. Stephens’s later work, especially his wonderful “Harper Regan,” a portrait of a runaway wife in a rudderless world, which I saw in London three years ago.

3 In these moments, Phair writes with great detail about what it is to be rudderless, frightened, confused, and yet willing to keep going without being able to see very far ahead.

4 The downside has been that when the diet is over, she is left rudderless and winds up returning to her old habits.

5 Who knew how apt a preface such works would provide for the rudderless world we now inhabit?

6 Now the orchestra was in deep financial waters and essentially rudderless.

7 But the music conveying this image seemed anything but rudderless, with slashing, dissonant piano chords, toccata-like streams of rushing notes from the violin, and buzzes and sputters from the cello.

8 Conducting from the violin or piano is more common with chamber and period orchestras and with Baroque music; with a full-size modern ensemble, the musicians essentially become rudderless for large swathes of a piece.

9 But it seems unlikely that Germany will save into pressure to expand the ECB's role any time soon, so yet again the Eurozone seems to be a rudderless ship on stormy seas.

但德国看起来不大可能将很快屈服于扩大欧洲央行角色的压力，所以欧元区看起来再次成为波涛汹涌的大海里一叶无助的扁舟。

10 Like the plot of nearly every decent Disney movie, the young Sedaris princes and princesses were sent out into the scary grown-up world motherless and rudderless but buoyed by her magnificent spirit.

11 The voice and style I used to love seems absent from the website most days; visiting its homepage gives the impression of a rudderless venture.

12 The play skewers the rudderless angst of suspended adolescence.

13 It’s enough to leave the species intact but heartsick; to leave society functioning but rudderless; to leave humanity standing but to kick the legs from under every existing belief system.

14 In the rudderless, post-Internet music world, it takes more than a few catchy songs to get noticed.

15 This is a book for dark, rudderless times, an immersion into fear and chaos.

16 At no time should a government be rudderless.

政府在任何时候都不能没有领导。

17 In rudderless despair and searching for ideological sustenance, he contemplated religion.

在失去航向的绝望中,在寻求精神食粮的过程中, 他想到了宗教.

18 In his review in The New York Times of the company’s production of “Ninth and Joanie” in April, Charles Isherwood bemoaned that Labyrinth was “increasingly rudderless.”

19 Following the unexpectedly delightful moment, I kept thinking how much more I'd rather see those two fine actors in a good comic farce than sit through the rest of the rudderless, halfhearted "Savages."

20 But Grace’s eyes were lost in a way that Joaquin recognized from a few foster kids, the ones who had been transferred so many times that they were rudderless, adrift in the storm.

1 无目标的

undirected purposeless

2 无目的的

idle blind pointless meaningless aimless desultory feeble-minded senseless

3 漫无目的的

idle desultory

4 无原则的

unprincipled

5 无目的

senseless aimless in vain

6 漫无目的

idle adrift desultory