And yet our inability to protect religious minorities is obvious to the thousands of Muslim victims of the Gujarat riots of 2002.
然而，在2002年造成数千穆斯林受害的古吉拉特邦骚乱中，我们对宗教少数派的保护无能已经暴露无遗。Or that, whether governments are corrupt and malign or merely negligent and incompetent, then sunlight is often the best disinfectant.
要论政府是否腐败邪恶或是疏忽无能，将其暴露在阳光下是再好不过的方式。Often failed to use it as an excuse to cover up the weak and incompetent in Egypt, but never hard to understand the mystery of this place.
人们经常把它当作失败后的托词，用来掩饰埃及的懦弱无能，却从不用心去体会这句话的奥妙之处。"That's right, " I said. " If I never feel that helpless again, it 'll be all right with me. "
“是那么回事，”我说，“要是我从来没有感到又是那样无能的话，我一切都会好多了。”Unfortunately, Australia's feckless leaders are destroying this by promoting high population growth without any sort of industrial strategy.
不幸啊，澳大利亚的无能的领导者采取了促进人口增长而没有相应的工业发展战略。As it turns out you were wrong to think that she was inefficient-she's the best secretary I've ever had.
结果证明你认为她无能是错的——她是我有过的最好的秘书。And yet, watching the proceedings in New York, what is striking is not so much the power of the international community as its impotence.
可是，在看了联合国的会议过程后，令人印象深刻的与其说是国际社会的力量，不如说是它的无能。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。What you said is all some mediocre incompetent person, is not really a courageous person.
您说的都是些平庸无能之辈，并非真正有胆识的人。