Since its inception in 1990, TV Marti has been the subject of controversy over cost, contracting,internal management and journalistic issues, and the inability of the Miami-based station to reach enough of the population in Cuba to justify the $500 million spent on the operation so far.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Well, "Home Burial" is a poem about the limits of work, the inability of the worker to bring a knowable world, a safe world, into being.

家冢“是他创作的极限之作，一个无能的工人让一个可知的世界，一个安全的世界存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But you can imagine the inability to do that in a big population study with thousands and thousands of subjects, so we have to rely on data like this.

但你们可以想象在一个大样本研究中,不可能对数以千计的研究对象做这种培训,所以我们需要依靠像这样的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

So we have many candidates, So we have many candidates, more than just two; or we have not voting, which is related to that actually; and we have choosing your position, the inability to commit to a position.

有多位候选人,实际情况下候选人不只有两个,存在弃权票,这也是很正常的,还有就是候选人,未必能够坚守他的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Obviously,because of the fighting, because of the displacement going on, that increases the peoples' inability to be fully nourished and they are having to resort to finding other means of getting food and the like.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

In fact, this poem's power lies, I think, in its -not only its inability but its unwillingness to specify the content of that revelation.

实际上我觉得这首诗的力量，我想，在于,它不着重写启示的内容,也不愿意去写,启示的内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And we pay a very high price for this inability, for this refusal to accept the fact that it is part of human nature that is constrained, that is there no matter what.

我们为这种无能付出高昂代价，为拒绝接受,本性受约束，生而有之的事实，付出高昂代价。

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Now, that's not a huge number but, obviously, when you're hoping to beat the market by a point or two losing by 0.3% per year because of your market timing inability is a bad thing.

看起来这不是个巨大的数字,明显地,当你希望获得,高于市场水平一到两个百分点的回报率,却由于抓不住市场时机而每年亏个0.3%,就很糟糕了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选