||1:Mr Huband also deals with fiascos , such as the political misuse of the sketchy intelligence available about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programmes.||2:Spies rarely provide solid answers, he says, but offer confusing bits of a jigsaw puzzle of unknown size and shape.||3:At best, secret intelligence removes an element of surprise from foreign affairs, but it rarely makes it clear what to do.

||1:Huband也会谈到失败的例子，像对于萨达姆的武器计划，情报人员得到的情报并不完全，结果这些情报被政府误用了。||2:他说，间谍很少会提供可靠的答案，他们只会提供零零碎碎的令人困惑的信息，至于那些零零碎碎的信息所拼成的“拼图”有多大、是什么形状，谁也不知道。||3:至多，秘密情报能让外事工作少遇到一些意料之外的事情，但很少会让人清楚该做什么。

But his reputation, like that of the junta, was left tattered by the fiascos over currency controls and foreign business-ownership.

但他的声名和他所属派别一样，因其对汇率的控制和改变外企所有权的惨败变得破烂不堪。

Lessons from Fiascos in Russian Corporate Governance

俄罗斯公司治理结构失败的教训

Like any emerging market, China has its fair share of fraud, scams and corporate governance fiascos .

就像任何新兴市场一样，中国也存在相当数量的欺诈、诈骗和公司治理丑闻。

Europe has let lots of blood, too: the bosses behind fiascos at UBS, Fortis and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have gone to the guillotine.

欧洲也进行了大放血：瑞士联合银行，富通银行以及苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）惨败幕后的很多老板都被送上了断头台。

Second, he reckons that it bolstered his efforts to improve the shoddy quality of manufacturing, to protect the firm from future fiascos .

其次，他认为这件事促使他改善低劣的制造工艺，否则公司今后极有可能在这一点上一败涂地。

IF THE consequences were not so serious, it would be tempting to mock the fiascos and flip-flops of America’s intelligence services.

如果不是结果如此严肃的话，人们还以为这是一次对美国情报部门颠三倒四和接连失败的嘲弄。

There have been fiascos .

已经有几次失败的例子。