I felt this crushing sense of powerlessness.

我感受到强烈的无力感。

The Dutch feel a sense of powerlessness as they've been thrust into the middle of this geopolitical conflict.

荷兰在被卷进这场地缘政治冲突中时有种无力感。

The girls never forgot that night, for no sleep came to them as they kept their watch, with that dreadful sense of powerlessness which comes to us in hours like those.

那一晚，姐妹们永远忘不了，她们一夜未睡守护着，心里怀着一种无能为力的可怕感觉——假如我们身临其境也会有这种感觉的。