toothless

音標發(fā)音

In the course of beatings, the guards broke all his teeth, leaving him toothless for four years.
他在被打的過程中，守衛(wèi)打碎了他所有的牙，他的牙齒四年來都沒有長出來。
TOOTHLESS and turbaned, the porters who loiter at Wagah, on the Indian side of the only border crossing by road with Pakistan, are a frustrated lot.
在瓦嘎（目前是印巴之間惟一開放的陸路邊境），很多牙齒掉光、戴著頭巾的搬運工四處徘徊，他們是失意的一群人。
Opponents of this approach complain that unless the targets are internationally binding, and there is a compliance mechanism to enforce them, any global agreement will be toothless.
反對這種做法的人們指出，除非這些目標具有國際約束力，且執(zhí)行起來有章可循，否則任何全球協(xié)議都將失去威信。

Here is part of that poem: The bone tasted of nothing and smelled of nothing, A scalded toothless harp, uncrushed,unstrung.

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You use toothless to describe a person or their smile when they have no teeth.
If you describe something such as an official group or a law as toothless, you mean it has no real power and is not effective.