John Henry Patterson, who founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884, would set the desks of inept employees on fire.

于1884年创建国家收银机公司的约翰·亨利·帕特森会把那些笨手笨脚的员工的办公桌付之一炬。

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I decided several months ago that there was no hope for this ridiculously inept product and I set about creating an alternative.

我决定在几个月前，有没有这种可笑的无能产品的希望，我开始着手创建一个选择。

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Or worse, caesareans were commonly implemented by inexperienced and inept doctors when panic and the fear of a malpractice lawsuit set in.

BBC: Caesarean births: Fad or folly?

The departure of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin this afternoon should set in train a wholesale housecleaning of a singularly inept foreign policy and national security team.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Foreign banks are being allowed to set up shop, but the state institutions that have monopolised banking since 1963 remain so inept that it can take weeks to transfer money between branches.

ECONOMIST: Bashar in the steps of his father