He will not be able to take away the moral curse of using force by employing it halfheartedly or incompetently . 半心半意或表现无能并不能使他摆脱因使用武力而引起的道义上的谴责。
But unfortunately my own nicety and the nicety of my friends have made me what i am: an idle, helpless being . 但是不幸的是,我自己的以及朋友们的拘泥已使我成为这样一个懒散无能的人。
As he sloshed through the wet snow he wrestled with a rising feeling of impotence, self-pity and rebellion . 他在潮湿的雪地里转来转去,和一种逐渐高涨的无能、自怜以及反抗的情绪搏斗着。
The young american is now in an ancient, condemned whaler, with a mutinous crew and a weak captain . 那个年轻的美国人现在置身于一条旧得不能再用的捕鲸船上,船员心存叛乱,船长软弱无能。
Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry to undertake a post without knowledge and without capacity . 伯莎把事情估计得过于严重,以为无知无能地任职是蒙混欺骗。
Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the individual citizen from high handed or incompetent public officers . 瑞典目前推行一种优越的制度,保护公民免受专横和无能政府官员之欺压。
Yet sada achieved his fundamental objective of shaking belief in israel's invincibility and arab impotence . 然而萨达特却达到了他的基本目标动摇了那种认为以色列是不可战胜的,而阿拉伯是软弱无能的信念。
The only disabilities-it would be too harsh to call them sins-were torpor, incuriosity, or some excess of temperament, such as sensuality . 绝无仅有的无能之辈--斥之为罪人似嫌过严--是麻木不仁者,或耽于声色,放浪形骸之徒。
The very shiftlessness of the household rendered the misfortune a less terrifying one to them than it would have been to a striving family . 他们一家人,原来就都是昏聩无能,苟且偷生,所以这种不幸,在他们看来,反道没有家道兴旺的人家看来那样可怕。