Defenders of the corporate world argue, as we have, that the problem is not so much with individual executives as with a system that creates an unwinnable game. 商业世界的维护者辩称(正如我们已经做过的那样),问题不在于个别高管,而在于令高管们左右为难的体系。
But President Kennedy realized that a nuclear war was profoundly unwinnable. 但是,肯尼迪(Kennedy)总统认识到,在一场核战争中根本不可能有胜利者。
In the UK, a poll by ComRes for ITV found that 73 per cent of Britons thought the war unwinnable. 在英国,ComRes为英国独立电视台(ITV)进行的调查显示,73%的英国民众认为这是一场无法获胜的战争。
In the past, most were reluctant to challenge the US on something they believed was unwinnable. 以前,大多数执行董事根本不愿在他们认为不可能取胜的事务上向美国发出挑战。
The war is unwinnable, in short, which is why the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth, and why every so-called victory is always temporary. 简短地说,这场战争是无法取胜的,这就是为什么单摆不停摆来摆去,以及为什么每个所谓的胜利都只是暂时的。
Analysts say it will take major progress against terrorism in Afghanistan to counter the weight of public opinion in Britain and other NATO countries that this is an unwinnable war. 最近,在对印度进行访问时,英国首相卡梅伦为阿富汗战争辩护,称英国军队保护英国免受恐怖主义袭击。