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

• 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。
• To spoil or lose through ineptitude.
  因无能而坏事或受损。
• Newcastle's ineptitude in front of goal again combined with defensive carelessness to cost them dear.
  纽卡主教练对这两粒进球显然负有不可推卸的责任。防守上的疏忽让他们付出了惨重的代价。
• Finally got the sackafter a year of ineptitude.
  不称职地工作一年后终于被解雇。
• Which are so pleasant and so easy as descents to mental ineptitude.
  它是如此地令人惬意和自在，如同滑向智力低能一样。
• No, karen, I tripped over your ineptitude.
  不，凯伦，我是被你的笨拙绊倒了。
• 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 ineptitude of this is best illustrated by a diagram.
  这种做法的不利之处最好用图来加以说明。
• 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 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。