imbecility

1. No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man-the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it.
   没有人能够经营好这样的企业&在那里虽然有众多人手，但是令人惊讶的是，其中充满了许多碌碌无为的人，这些人要么没有能力，要么不情愿去集中精力做好一件事。
2. You're probably already making a scrunched up, pinched look with your face and shaking your head at my imbecility.
   你恐怕已经眉头深锁、头摇得像波浪鼓似的，对我愚蠢的行为不堪苟同。
3. A monument to imbecility and perversity in scholarship.
   学术上愚蠢和乖僻的典型。
4. That is not a reason; it is mere waywardness and imbecility.
   说它就像尼亚加拉瀑布，那不是原因，只是任性和愚蠢。
5. He derided the surrealists as'leaders of modernistic imbecility '.
   他嘲笑超现实主义画家是“现代主义低能”的领导者。
6. If hundreds of civilians are killed, and hundreds of thousands put to flight, so be it: in war, under israel's philosophy, moderation is imbecility.
   如果有成百上千的市民将在这场站战争中丧生，成千上万的士兵将要牺牲，那就让它发生吧：在以色列的战争哲学中，适可而止就是低能愚蠢。
7. The temptation is to laugh at the bureaucratic imbecility of such wrangling.
   人们不禁嘲笑这种争论的官僚愚蠢之处。
8. The essence of war is violence; moderation in war is imbecility!
   战争的本质是暴力，战争中的中庸便是低能！
9. And young men like billiards and cards, which take their minds off the imbecility of everyday work.
   年轻人喜欢打台球，耍扑克，这些可以排遣因日常工作中的缺失而淤在心中的郁闷。
10. Under the circumstance of government imbecility, the fellow society played important roles in social control, conflict harmonization and interest protection in modern Shanghai's administration of non-native migrating population.
    在政府缺位和政府管理能力不足的情况下，同乡组织在近代上海外来人口管理中发挥了重要的社会控制、冲突协调、利益维护作用。

noun

1. a stupid mistake

   Synonym:    stupiditybetisefollyfoolishness

2. retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot