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

• 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。
• It gained an advantage over silk, tea or gauze export in terms of price trends, fluctuation and actual price. The Prime Minister kept on top of the Opposition more by their ineptitude than by his own skill.
  其价格走势、震荡程度、实际价格与同时期主要进出口商品丝茶、纱布相比具有相对优势地位。是反对党的无能，而非他个人的领导艺术，使该首相处于优势地位。
• No, karen, I tripped over your ineptitude.
  不，凯伦，我是被你的笨拙绊倒了。
• What is the secret of this ineptitude?
  这种不称职的秘密是什么？
• But it is more important not to think lies, or to slide into those mechanical and untruthful habits of thought which are so pleasant and so easy as descents to mental ineptitude.
  但是更重要的是不去想谎言，也不陷入那些无意识的和不诚实的思维习惯，这种思维习惯令他如此惬意和自在，就象沦为智力低能一样。
• Can't forbear criticizing their ineptitude.
  禁不住要批评他们的笨拙。
• 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。
• But if the eurozone crisis worsens, blaming European ineptitude will do little good: a strong IMF will be better for all.
  但是如果欧元区危机恶化，那么责怪欧洲人无能也无济于事：强大的imf对大家都是一件好事。
• 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。
• The Palestinians have lost at every turn, mostly through their own ineptitude.
  巴勒斯坦人已经失去动辄大多是通过自己的不称职。