ineptitude

英 [ɪˈneptɪtjuːd]

美 [ɪˈneptɪtuːd]

n.  缺乏技巧; 无能; 笨拙

复数：ineptitudes　

GRE法律

BNC.20678 / COCA.20958

牛津词典

noun

• 缺乏技巧；无能；笨拙
  lack of skill
  1. the ineptitude of the police in handling the situation
     警方在处理这个局面时的无能

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 无能;笨拙
  If you refer to someone'sineptitude, you are criticizing them because they do something with a complete lack of skill.
  1. ...the tactical ineptitude of the allied commander.
     盟军指挥官战术上的无能

英英释义

noun

• having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
  1. the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
  Synonym:worthlessness
• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
  Synonym:awkwardnessclumsinessineptnessmaladroitnessslowness

双语例句

• That may be the one virtue of the rising yen and the destruction it wreaks: It is exposing the ineptitude of the Hatoyama administration's economic policies.
  或许日圆升值和其衍生的破坏不全是坏事，至少我们学到一点，它暴露了鸠山政府的经济政策的颟顸。
• He also wishes to comment upon the ineptitude and insignificance of human beings in relation to our own mortality and the magnificence and endlessness of nature.
  同时他也想谈论的是，相对于我们自身的死亡和伟大恒久的大自然，人类的无能及渺小。
• The public sector deficit, popular outrage at bankers 'greed and ineptitude, and a realisation that light touch was the wrong touch caused many of the totemic City-friendly policies to be reversed.
  公共部门赤字、公众对于银行家贪婪和无能的愤怒，加之人们认识到温和监管是错误的政策，所有这些都导致许多有利于伦敦城的标志性政策被逆转。
• The world economy would still have to grapple with ineptitude elsewhere and with weak growth.
  世界经济仍将必须设法解决其他国家未能妥善处理经济危机及全球经济增长缓慢的问题。
• Most of this radicalism was hidden from the British electorate that voted her into office in 1979, largely in frustration with Labour's ineptitude.
  她把这种激进主义的大部分内容都隐藏起来，英国选民把她选进政府的主要是出于对工党无能的失望。
• No, karen, I tripped over your ineptitude.
  不，凯伦，我是被你的笨拙绊倒了。
• Which are so pleasant and so easy as descents to mental ineptitude.
  它是如此地令人惬意和自在，如同滑向智力低能一样。
• The feeling of physical ineptitude was humiliating enough, but even more frustrating was the sense that there was something worth grasping, and that it was eluding me.
  感觉自己的身体条件差已足以让人感到羞辱，而更令人沮丧的是，你感觉有些东西值得去掌握，却掌握不了。
• Here are the second annual Meanie Awards for outstanding achievement in the field of human ineptitude.
  以下是第二届年度“闲说奖”获奖名单，授予那些在人类愚行领域取得杰出成就的人士。
• Can't forbear criticizing their ineptitude.
  禁不住要批评他们的笨拙。