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

• The feeling of physical ineptitude was humiliating enough, but even more frustrating was the sense that there was something worth grasping, and that it was eluding me.
  感觉自己的身体条件差已足以让人感到羞辱，而更令人沮丧的是，你感觉有些东西值得去掌握，却掌握不了。
• Here, I would argue, simple ineptitude seems to be a bigger problem than disinclination to co-operate.
  依我见，在这个问题上，相比不愿合作的态度，纯粹的无能似乎是更严重的问题。
• To spoil or lose through ineptitude.
  因无能而坏事或受损。
• Here are the second annual Meanie Awards for outstanding achievement in the field of human ineptitude.
  以下是第二届年度“闲说奖”获奖名单，授予那些在人类愚行领域取得杰出成就的人士。
• 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。
• The public sector deficit, popular outrage at bankers 'greed and ineptitude, and a realisation that light touch was the wrong touch caused many of the totemic City-friendly policies to be reversed.
  公共部门赤字、公众对于银行家贪婪和无能的愤怒，加之人们认识到温和监管是错误的政策，所有这些都导致许多有利于伦敦城的标志性政策被逆转。
• The world economy would still have to grapple with ineptitude elsewhere and with weak growth.
  世界经济仍将必须设法解决其他国家未能妥善处理经济危机及全球经济增长缓慢的问题。
• Despite the ineptitude of Edison as manager, the general electric company he established would be the most successful of all businesses in the century that followed.
  尽管爱迪生管理无方，但他所创建的通用电气（ge）会成为接下来一个世纪里最成功的企业。
• What is the secret of this ineptitude?
  这种不称职的秘密是什么？
• 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。