So,the high costs in terms of running a health system are exacerbated by the inability to repair existing equipment.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

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

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

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

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

Cambodia's inability to save mothers contrasts with its success in lowering infant and child deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Mr.Hariri's inability to form a unified government led him to call it quits.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

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

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

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Turkey's persistent denial and inability to face, or unwillingness to face up to its history is very disruptive in all kinds of ways - in terms of international relations, in terms of its own internal politics - and it also prevents it from really recognizing how do you deal with minorities."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

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