A person considered inept or undesirable.

笨蛋，傻瓜被认为是不中用的人

inept handling of the account.

笨拙地处理帐目

an inept comparison

不适当的比较.

“The wine experts proved just as inept as the novices at naming odors,” the magazine said

该文章中说:“试验证明，在味道识别方面，品酒专家和品酒新手一样并没有什么过人之处。

hoover was inept at politics as he was superb administration

胡佛精于管理而拙于政治。

The emperor had been in a state of pitiable vacillation(William Hickling Prescott.Sometimes the terms connote contemptuous pity,as for what is hopelessly inept or inadequate

皇帝曾处于令人可怜的举棋不定状态(威廉·希克林·普雷斯科特)。这两个词有时暗指轻蔑的同情，如令人绝望地无能或不合适的东西

It is easier to teach one with a natural aptitude for the subject being taught, than one for whom the teaching are inept

教猴子上得树，教狗上不得树

Mrs. Liu also approved of her husband’s keen reasoning, her only qualm being that Fang was so inept and would need her husband to keep his job for him

刘太太也称赞丈夫心思敏捷，只担心方鸿渐本领太糟，要大舅子替他捧牢饭碗。

an inept remark

谬论.

I want to be able to play the piano or some other instrument elegantly (I am not only totally ignorant about music, but am also tone deaf [inept at music, lit. five tones incomplete])

能优雅地弹奏钢琴或演奏别的什么乐器(我这个人不但是乐盲,而且五音不全)

In the first place, Hoover was as inept at politics as he was superb at administration

首先，胡佛精于管理而拙于政治。

He is inept at [in] ball games.

他不擅于打球。

His inept handling of a minor problem turned it into a major crisis.

他处理不善使小事变大了.

He’s quite inept at tennis.

他打网球太笨。

He’s inept at tennis.

他根本不会打网球。

They depicted the government as inept

他们把政府描绘得无能。

They’re inept at tennis

他们根本不会打网球。

He`s quite inept at tennis.

他一点也不会打网球.

He is totally inept .

他做什么都不行((完全没用))。

He is totally inept .

他做什麽都不行。

Her hair was unwaved and put up in a bun, probably because she found the local hairdressers too inept

头发没烫，梳了髻，想来是嫌本地理发店电烫不到家的缘故。

I’ve never heard anyone so inept at making speeches.

我从未听说过有这样不会讲话的人.

Not competent or skillful; inept .

无能的没能力的或不熟练的;笨拙的

There are some people so inept at keeping records

有些人不善于保留单据。

Inept or unwise rule;misgovernment.

治理不当不明智的或不恰当的统治;治理不当

||1:The monsters of the past knew no such checks.||2:John Henry Patterson, who founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884, would set the desks of inept employees on fire.||3:To find similarly forceful bosses today, one must look East.||4:When Zhang Ruimin took over Haier, a Chinese white-goods company, in 1984, he smashed one of the company’s products to pieces with a sledgehammer to show what he thought of its quality.||5:Hollywood could use a few bosses like Mr Zhang.

||1:过去的恐怖老板不懂得这样对待员工。||2:1884年一手创立美国计算机服务公司的John Henry Patterson会放火把无所作为的员工的桌子烧掉。||3:今天要想再找出同样强有力的老板，必须把目光投向东方。||4:当1984年张瑞敏接管中国白色家电公司海尔之时，他用一把大锤子把公司的一件产品砸成碎片，以表明他对公司产品质量的看法。||5:好莱坞可以用些像张先生这样的老板。

||1:Parents fret that staring at screens all day has made youngsters socially inept face-to-face.||2:A survey by Christian Mingle and J-Date, two niche dating sites, found that 36-38% of Americans aged 21-34 ask for dates by text message.||3:But when they meet, they must still make their moves in person.||4:Witty banter and a well-placed wink still have their uses.

||1:年轻人整天盯着屏幕看来看去已经让他们人与人之间的社交活动变得很生疏，父母们对此很担忧。||2:一份来自两个盈利性约会网站Christian Mingle和J-Date的调查发现，21岁到34岁之间的美国人，有36%到38%的是通过短信约会。||3:但是当他们见面的时候，他们仍然必须亲历亲为。||4:诙谐幽默和眉来眼去仍然有用武之地。

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

1884年一手创立美国计算机服务公司的John Henry Patterson会放火把无所作为的员工的桌子烧掉。

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。

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。

inept management

n.不适当管理

insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer (缩写:inept)

不灵敏核极化转移增益法