The new system was tried and found wanting.
这一新系统经测试发现不够好。
But the Western way was often found wanting in an important respect: it didn't necessarily produce a partner of the right economic, social, and educational qualifications.
但是人们经常发现,西方的方式经常在一个重要方面存在欠缺:它不一定能培养出经济、社会和教育背景良好的伴侣。
That promise has been found wanting.
那种说法已经不合时宜了。
The vegetables were weighed and found wanting.
蔬菜过称后发现不够分量。
But so far, the world's leaders have been found wanting.
但到目前为止,世界各国领导人都无动于衷。
TEKEL:You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.
提客勒,就是你被称在天平里,显出你的亏欠;
You have been weighed on the scales (of God) and found wanting.
你被秤在天平里,显出你的亏欠。
Then there is the question of toughness, where both are found wanting.
接下来要谈到性格的坚韧问题,两兄弟都缺少这一点。
Several services have emerged in this space, but many that we tested have been found wanting.
而在这个领域里已经出现了几家提供这类服务的公司,不过我们测试的许多服务都存在不足。
They could also be found wanting in many areas as they cannot keep pace with their peers at home.
因为跟不上国内毕业生的步伐,他们也可能在许多领域有所欠缺。
One by one, the claims made by modern finance have been tested during this crisis and usually found wanting.
现代金融业做出的主张在这场危机中正一个接一个的受到检验,并且通常都被发现不尽如人意。
Bankers and investors need to suffer precisely because the methods of modern finance have been found wanting.
正因为大家发现,现代金融手段有缺陷,所以银行家和投资者才不得不蒙受损失。
More often, the data have to be collected, reviewed, analysed statistically, found wanting, collected again and re-analysed.
更多的是,必须要采集数据,评价,统计分析,找到欠缺的数据,再次采集数据和再分析。
Clearly the current framework has been tested and found wanting, but it will be some time before we reach consensus on how to adapt it.
显然,目前的框架已经受到了检验并证明是不足的,但我们还需要一定的时间才能就如何调整这个框架达成一致。
If it was found wanting, either Goldman (as underwriter) would have had to buy the stock back at par, or Facebook would have had to go public.
如果存在缺陷,那么要么高盛(作为承销商)按照票面价值回购股票,要么Facebook不得不公开上市。
But its regulations were recently found wanting by the Delhi High Court, which then banned bags in markets and shops, as well as hotels, hospitals and malls.
但是德里高级法院最近发现这个规定变得很急需,于是下令在市场和商店禁用塑料袋,还有旅馆,医院和购物广场。
Nonetheless, when it contrasts choosing a breakfast cereal in an American supermarket with defying death in dusty Baghdad, it's the former that's found wanting.
影片中在美国超市选择早晨麦片的悠闲情节与在黄沙漫天的伊拉克进行生死搏斗的紧张场景形成了鲜明的对比,而前者正是大家所期盼能得到享受到的生活。
We know people who are like this in conversation, and it's very hard to listen to somebody if you know that you're being judged and found wanting at the same time.
我们知道有些人在谈话中是这样的,这让人很难听进别人的话,如果你知道你被人评判且被认为不合格。
Week after week, she and her child had submitted themselves to the director’s appraising, professional eye, and, for all their earnest effort, they had still been found wanting.
连续十周,每一周她都要带着孩子,承受园长鉴定、专业的眼光,尽管她们尽了最大的努力,还是没能达到要求。
And some people worry that they'll never be able to let go enough to love anybody: "the reason is usually buried in their childhood, in some fear of being found wanting, or in parental disapproval."
有些人担心,他们再也不会全心身地去爱任何人了。“这些问题的根子通常深埋在他们的童年里,害怕别人发现自己需要爱,或者是由于父母的不赞同。”
He analysed his game and found it wanting.
他分析了自己的比赛,发现还有待提高。
The report on couples between 1998 and 2008 found women increasingly having well paid jobs, and wanting a partner who earns similar to avoid stress and confrontation.
从1998年到2008年结婚的夫妻报道中发现女性渐渐拥有好工作,并希望找一个收入差不多的配偶避免有压力和矛盾。
I found myself wanting to learn something all for me.
我发现自己想为自己学点东西。
Without doubt, modern finance has been found seriously wanting.
毫无疑问,现代金融业存在着严重的不足。
He found himself wanting to protect her instead, to carry her up flights of stairs, to wrap her in blankets, to bring her cups of custard.
他发现自己反而只想保护她,抱她上楼、替她盖被子、帮她端布丁等等,“我不是病人。”
With no experience at renting and not wanting to pay real estate agency fees, after scouring the Internet he found he could only afford a subdivided unit.
由于租赁经验不足,也不想付租房中介费,在上网搜寻之后,他发现他只能负担得起一个隔断间。
With no experience at renting and not wanting to pay real estate agency fees, after scouring the Internet he found he could only afford a subdivided unit.
由于租赁经验不足,也不想付租房中介费,在上网搜寻之后,他发现他只能负担得起一个隔断间。
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