The second theory reinforces the first, by combining the pressure for ever greater success with the selection of bosses ill-equipped to handle it.

关于这句我的看法：第二条理论是对第一条的补充。 除了面临不断进步带来的压力，选择了不适当的经营者是另一个原因。

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The newly nationalised oil industry kept the structure of the old, and production was limited to try to moderate the flood of money into a country ill-equipped to handle it.

新国有化石油产业保持了旧体制，限制石油产量以缓和资金涌入这个设备简陋的国家。

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It cares for the acute problem, leaving the long term, and often much harder, work to a system ill-equipped to handle it.

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If there are business needs that banks like B of A are ill-equipped to handle internally, it makes more sense for them to stick to their knitting.

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The treaties, the summitry and the political volatility that define Europe are completely ill-equipped to handle the crisis as it enters a new and potentially determinate end state.

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