The judge`s answer came across as hapless and pathetic.

法官吐露出的答复令人感到丧气和没有希望的。

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President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.

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Mr. Ives's hapless characters are all trying to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, usually in the most circuitous of ways.

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Mr Hague's personal ratings have plumbed depths not seen since Michael Foot's hapless leadership of Labour in the 1980s.

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