inaptitude

1 Previous to the introduction of quadrilles and country dances or contredanses, the inaptitude of nine-tenths of mankind for dancing was still more eminently demonstrated in the murders of the minuet.

2 Apart from his moral inaptitude for the monumental achievements of authorship, Diderot was endowed with the gifts of the talker rather than with those of the writer.

3 He assures us that his tutor did not complain of any inaptitude on the pupil’s part, and that the pupil was as happily unconscious of any on his own; but here he broke off.

4 The Empress was already foreboding her fate; there was the stiffness of inaptitude about everything, even the amusement, and the languid weariness of the ladies was an unforgiven imperial sin.

5 But an analogy more enlightening for showing the 41 inaptitude of the child for direct study of the laws of conduct is found in the case of speech.

6 The English officers were loud in condemning Austrian slowness—the inaptitude they exhibited to profit by a success, and the over-caution which made them, even in victory, so careful of their own safety.

7 Our young student looked offended, and muttered something about the inaptitude of the English for a deep theosophy and philosophy.

8 So I floundered and fumbled and failed, through long years for the mere want of the small dose of cynical courage required for recognising frankly my congenital inaptitude.

9 The spectacle of an able and estimable man exhibiting such singular inaptitude for a province of study which, beyond all others, demands a clear head and a calm, dispassionate judgment,—creates distress.

10 It likewise plainly follows, from the inaptitude of this argument to show that God is omnipresent, that thereby we can not prove infinity of power to belong to him.

11 The assertion that Mr. Tennyson was born with an inaptitude for musical verse, though I conceive it to be very wide of the mark, I can at least understand.

12 I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude.

我常常纳罕,我以前怎么竟会认为他才干不足呢!

13 But, on the other hypothesis, of space being objective, it is impossible to guess whence we are to draw our proof of the alleged inaptitude in two straight lines for enclosing a space.

14 I mean a strenuous and sincere belief in convention, combined with a huge natural inaptitude for observing it.

15 More especially it may now be declared that Professor Teufelsdroeckh’s acquirements, patience of research, philosophic, and even poetic vigor, are here made indisputably manifest; and unhappily no less his prolixity and tortuosity and manifold inaptitude….

16 But the Roman had a real inaptitude for the speculative: to him nothing was real that was not practical.

17 Did Jones discern a similar inaptitude for bank service and hint things for the teller's benefit?

18 There's another factor—call it an inaptitude factor.

19 You are a French officer, sir," said he, "and I rely upon your honor that, whether from the ignorance or inaptitude of that gentleman, no blame may attach itself to me in this business.

20 To some, a most striking incidental proof of his inaptitude for the ordinary layman's life, is found in the subjoined extract from the memoranda.

1 无能力

unfit disability incapacity have no idea

2 无能

incapacious ineffective incapable helpless incompetent powerless inept talentless effete shiftless footless unaccomplished inapt nonability disability disable inability paralysis inefficiency palsy incompetence emptiness impotence bumble ineptitude impuissance

3 不恰当

unfortunate unhappy unworthy inept incongruous inapposite unapt inequality impertinence solecism

4 不熟练

fresh incompetent unskilled fallow amateurish inexpert unversed inapt unpractised unskilful unhackneyed inartificial greenly incompetence inexperience

5 拙笨

soft maladdress

6 不适合

unsuitable unfit unqualified inapplicable unsuited unfitting unfitted unadapted unbefitting maladapted unapt ill-matched disagreement unfitness misfit unbeseem disqualify indispose be beneath be unfit for out of key

7 拙劣

lubberly penny-a-line poor appalling ill heavy-handed unskillful bungling inapt unhandy unapt botchy poorly unskillfully unaptly awkwardness no class

8 不适当

bad unfortunate inappropriate inadequate improper undue unlucky ineligible unsuitable unfit indecent misplaced unbecoming inopportune unsuited ill-suited impertinent ill-considered off-key unfitting inapt uncomely inapposite infelicitous unapt unmeet incompetence inadequacy impropriety impertinence unsuitability infelicity uncalled for unhappy insufficient unseemly uncalled-for malapropos incongruity wrong punk incompetent unwise inept incongruous untoward incongruent incommensurate inexpedient amiss inexpedience insufficiency ineptitude indecency incorrectness indispose incorrect bum ill wry inapplicable unfitted unpregnant inequality indisposition

9 不合适

unfortunate unhappy indecent inept inopportune injudicious inapt inaptness improper unsuitable untidy inapplicable unsuited ill-suited unbefitting indecency misfit

10 无准备

offhand

11 不灵巧

clumsy

12 笨拙

lubberly cack-handed heavy awkward clumsy left-handed wretched ill unwieldy overgrown hulking bumbling ungainly uncouth gauche unskillful bonehead ham-fisted tactless artless fumbling gawky elephantine footless klutzy impolitic ham-handed blundering inexpert maladroit inapt unapt hamfisted twofisted sternforemost dumpishly awkwardly clumsily woodenly artlessly boorishly blunderingly insipience dumpishness awkwardness clumsiness flat-footed angularity boorishness gaucherie artlessness gawkiness goonery with a heavy hand all thumbs have a heavy hand be all fingers and thumbs be all thumbs wooden angular savage inept unskilled splay ponderous dippy clownish graceless unhandy hipshot stern foremost bungling skill-less cag-handed slow dense rustic chuckle hairy lousy bovine zany left-footed clumping knock-kneed lumpish corn-fed two-fisted undiplomatic muddleheaded gawkish unpolitic cubbish fatly muff dullness maladdress for sour apples