incompetence

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Disaster can loom like a giant spotlight – at any moment, it can shine a blinding light into a dark corner and expose inadequacy and incompetence.
灾难就巨大的聚光灯一样出现——在任何时候，它可以发出炫目的光芒，射进黑暗的角落，揭露出政客们的不足和无能。
Their happiness made me think that I had judged her wrongly before; that the selfishness and incompetence I had seen in her had been in me—my faults.
他们的幸福让我觉得我当年对她的判断有误。我以为从她身上看到的自私和无能，其实可能正是我自己的----是我错了。
But so far his presidency has been vitiated by a combination of incompetence and a willingness to fall back on the very tactics that he denounced as a candidate.
但到目前为止，他的总统任期已经被那些回到完全是他作为候选人时所谴责的旧路的想法和无能所玷污。

So far attacks in the U.S. - at least those that are publicly known -- have been thwarted by heightened security awareness and increased counterterrorism measures from the U.S.side, as well as by both bad luck and professional incompetence on the terrorists' part.
In 1992, a study on literacy of United States a particular illiteracy was associated with law incompetence, with poverty, with welfare, with incarceration.
992年，一项关于美国人文化素养的研究,文化素养低下与,低下的生活水平，贫困和社会福利，以及监禁有一定关系。
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It's as if someone was trying to parody right-wing narratives of government bureaucracy and incompetence.
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Gents with No Cents will make you laugh at the ignorance and cry at the incompetence.
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If you refer to someone's incompetence, you are criticizing them because they are unable to do their job or a task properly.