John Henry Patterson, who founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884, would set the desks of inept employees on fire.

于1884年创建国家收银机公司的约翰亨利帕特森会把那些笨手笨脚的员工的办公桌付之一炬。

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That made systems which relied on them good at spotting narrow classes of objects but inept at discerning anything else.

于是，依靠手动操作滤光器的计算机视觉系统，可以识别的物体类别十分有限，而无法分辨其他更多的东西。

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Alas, Vice President King succumbed after just 45 insignificant days in office as part of an inept and disgraceful administration.

哎呀，King副总统在就职后的45天后（作为一届愚蠢而又可耻的政府里一个打酱油的小角色）也去世了。

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Bob, somewhat inept with a knife, can cut upone ounce of vegetables per minute, or make two hors d’oeuvres per minute.

鲍勃，不太会用刀，每分钟只能切一盎司蔬菜，或每分钟两做两道开胃小菜。

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But nerds are socially inept , and he is anything but.

不过书呆子通常的不谙世事在他身上可一点都找不到。

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The weakness of non-military institutions has been obvious during the inept civilian response to the current floods.

从文职政府应对当前洪灾的无能表现看，非军事机构的弱点暴露无遗。

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But most seem to think the senator is inept at best and a liar at worst.

但是大多数人认为这位议员太过笨拙，还是最差的说谎者。

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But the analytical mind he uses to devise business models is just as sharp in assessing the military’s inept talent management.

但是在评估军方笨拙的人才管理机制时，他用以设计经营模式的分析能力也同样强。

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When we have invested a lot in a choice that turns out to be bad, we’re really inept at admitting that it didn’t make rational sense.

当我们已经在一个后来被证明错误的选择上投入很多的时候，总是很难承认那其实是不合理的。

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64 min: An inept challenge from Kranjcar on Evra gives United a free kick on the edge of the box.

第64分钟：克拉尼察尔在禁区边缘笨拙的防守动作放倒了埃夫拉送给曼联一个位置极好任意球。

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Computers are often inept at understanding the meaning of a word because that meaning depends on the context in which the word is used.

电脑在理解词意方面往往很笨拙，因为单词的意思取决于它的上下文。

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the irascible, autocratic Ford would prove as inept a chief executive in his later years as he had been brilliant in his youth.

而事实证明，性情暴躁且专横的福特虽然年轻时才华横溢，但到了晚年却变成了一个无能的首席执行官。

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One of the biggest myths about online education is that students will become socially inept .

关于网络教育的最大一个谎言就是学生的社交能力会降低。

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HF radio transceiver inept using all mode.

号高频无线电收发机在所有状态下都不工作

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Perhaps they should add inept parents to the list.

或许，航空公司更应该将不称职的父母列入黑名单。

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The regulators have become toothless and inept as watchdogs.

监管机构作为看门狗已没牙齿了，不称职了。

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The result has been a succession of inept leaders and the absence of a coherent policy agenda.

结果，无能的领导人接连上台，却始终缺乏一项具有连贯性的政策议程。

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The result? Transferring leads made effective reps appear to be inept while making ineffective ones appear to be top performers.

结果呢？潜在生源的转移使效率高的招生代表显得无能，而让低效的招生代表显得优秀。

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Ever more Westerners understandably ask why their compatriots must keep dying to prop up the inept and corrupt Mr Karzai.

可以理解，越来越多的西方人质疑为什么他们的同胞要冒着生命危险去支持不称职并且道德败坏的卡尔扎伊先生。

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Yes, you are often clumsy, even inept .

没错，你常常笨手笨脚甚至显得无能。

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However, inept but thrifty Buffett Investment Management would still have accumulated $82m.

然而，无能且吝啬的巴菲特投资管理公司仍可以积累8200万美元的资产。

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If overpaying hugely for a rival does not count as inept , then what does?

如果为收购竞争对手支付过高的价格不能算做无能，那什么还能算得上呢？

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Previous civilian administrations have been corrupt and inept , but so has the army rule that has routinely supplanted them.

上一届民选政府不仅无能而且极度腐败，但是取代它的军政府目前的状态和上届是一样的。

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The police have proven peculiarly inept at stemming sporadic but recurrent bouts of sectarian strife.

事实证明，警察在处理时时爆发没完没了的派系斗争上出奇的无能。

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This proved handy after Mr Thaksin’s allies won an election in December 2007 and an inept military government was disbanded.

事实证明之后不久他信的盟友十分便利地在2007年12月赢得了选举，无能的军人政府被解散。

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The answer is through a combination of political expediency, inept tactics and fumbled diplomacy.

他尝试了政治上的权宜之计，他生涩的战术和笨拙的外交。

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Venal and inept , his government surely needs to be replaced.

他的政府既贪腐又无能，确实需要被取代。

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Both respect Chinese culture, but look down on modern Chinese as backwards and inept .

他们都尊崇中国文化，但瞧不起现代中国人，认为他们落后且无能。

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He wanted to hold hands. I was young, inept and scared.

他想要握手，可我少不更事，笨拙，惊慌。

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The army has mostly stepped in when inept civilian governments were on the brink of collapse.

通常情况下，当无能的人民政府处于崩溃的边缘时，巴基斯坦军队便会介入。

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