The other members of the group whom Jordan meets are the gipsy Rafael, amiable but feckless , and Pablo’s wife Pilar, an ugly woman who is far braver than her husband

乔丹见到的游击队其他成员有友善厚道但缺乏能力的吉普赛人拉斐尔和帕布洛的妻子皮拉尔。皮拉尔这个女人相貌虽丑，却比她丈夫勇敢得多。

two years of feckless negotiations

拖了两年毫无结果的谈判

||1:American conservatives growl that if the country feels all wrong it is because Democrats buy elections with “free stuff” for the feckless poor, destroying the national work ethic.||2:Democrats say no, it is because Republicans are too heartless to care about the middle classes, and because unpatriotic billionaires send jobs overseas.||3:Similarly, in Britain, Mr Miliband implies that the middle class are getting stiffed because the Conservatives care only about the rich.||4:French presidents blame technocrats in Brussels for the same problem.||5:Few of these leaders will admit that their countries’ travails owe more to global forces than to their opponents’ folly.

||1:美国的保守党咆哮着，如果美国人感觉不对，那是因为民主党用“免费的东西”讨好了无用的穷人，收买了选举，破坏了美国的职业道德。||2:民主党否认说，其实这是因为民主党麻木不仁，对中产阶级毫不关心，以及因为毫无同情心的亿万富翁把大把工作拱手送给外国。||3:同样地，在英国，米利班德也暗示，中产阶级陷入困境的原因是保守党只关心富人。||4:法国总统则也以同样的罪名谴责布鲁塞尔的技术官僚。||5:很少有领导人会承认，自己国家的困境更多地是由于全球大势，而不是竞争对手的愚蠢。

||1:It would not.||2:An independent Catalonia would have more fiscal revenues, but it would also have a higher debt burden than Spain.||3:The argument that Catalans should not subsidise feckless Andalusians is a dangerous one: apply that more widely and the euro zone would fall apart.||4:Indeed, far from welcoming Catalonia as an independent member, the euro zone’s leaders hardly yearn for an extra nation-state.

||1:然而事实并非真如他们所想。||2:如果独立，泰罗尼亚人民将上缴更多的税，而且承受的债务压力要比没有独立时还大。||3:有人认为安达鲁西亚人软弱无用，卡泰罗尼亚不应对其进行补助，但这一论调很危险：若广泛采纳，每个国家都这么想，欧元区将分崩离析。||4:诚然，欧元区领导人一点也不支持卡泰罗尼亚独立，不希望多出一个国家来。

Remember, for instance, the eugenic sterilisation of the feckless ?

比如，你能否记得对滥情却不尽责的家长实施优生绝育的做法？

Yet the feckless boy is everywhere.

不过这个没有长远目标的男孩依旧到处跑。

Unfortunately, Australia’s feckless leaders are destroying this by promoting high population growth without any sort of industrial strategy.

不幸啊，澳大利亚的无能的领导者采取了促进人口增长而没有相应的工业发展战略。

But what they detest is the idea that it might let feckless Italians and Portuguese off the hook.

但让他们不满的是这样一种观点，即援助方案可能会让懒散的意大利人和葡萄牙人未受惩罚就脱离了危机。

Germany complains it is footing the bill for its feckless neighbours.

德国抱怨，自己在为不负责任的邻居埋单。

German voters have just shown that they will punish leaders who spend their money bailing out feckless foreigners (see article).

德国选民不久前表示，对那些花他们的钱去保释无能的外国人的领导人，他们要予以惩罚。

Indifference towards the sacrament of marriage appears strongest among the elderly, not the feckless young.

对婚姻的神圣性最为不在乎的并非是多变的年轻人，而是年老的一代。

Indignation with the feckless Greeks will be great.

对无能的希腊人的愤慨将是巨大的。

matched only by bitter talk in Germany about the costs of bailing out feckless southern Europeans.

而在德国这边，人们则在愤怒地谈论着援助不中用的南欧国家的成本。

Despite Republican attempts to paint them as feckless or job-shy, they are usually anything but.

尽管共和党试图将他们描述成有缺陷或者不愿工作的懒人，但通常情况并不如此。

Generous benefits distort the labour market and may encourage feckless behaviour.

慷慨的补助会使劳动力市场扭曲，可能会鼓励懒惰行为。

The antibiotic divide has been leapt on by some north Europeans as a stick for bashing feckless Latins.

抗生素问题已跃升成为一些北欧人抨击拉丁语系人无远见的的武器。

BELIEVE the headlines and Europe’s worst economic headache by far is Greece , financially feckless and socially volatile.

料想新闻头条以及欧洲最麻烦的经济问题，到目前为止仍是希腊，经济萎靡，社会动荡。

Indifference towards the sacrament of marriage appears strongestamong the elderly, not the feckless young.

另外，对婚姻誓言的漠视表现得最明显的是老年人，而非扶不起的年轻一代。

Fingers have been pointed at supine regulators, greedy bankers and investors, naive consumers and feckless politicians.

人们已经把矛头指向了松懈的监管机构、贪婪的银行家和投资者、天真的消费者以及软弱无能的政治家。

Microcredit is one example, in part because poor men seem to be more feckless borrowers than their female counterparts.

如小额贷款，部分原因是贫困妇女相较贫困男性而言更为软弱。

Though New Orleanians narrowly re-elected their feckless mayor, Ray Nagin, in 2006, that election now seems an aberration.

虽然新奥尔良人在2006年勉强再次推选了他们乏善可陈的市长雷•纳金（RayNagin），但是现在看来，那场选举只是一次意外。

Whereas the West suffered a deep recession because of reckless bankers and feckless regulators, China escaped with barely a scratch.

由于银行家贪婪及政府监管不力，西方国家陷入深度衰退，但中国几乎毫发未损。