incapacity
incapacity 英 [ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti] 美 [ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪti]
n. 无能力，无能
名词复数:incapacities
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- n. 无能力，无能
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1. But my experience is that corruption basically flows into the vacuum created by incapacity and that there's corruption in places that have capacity.
当然。 不过以我的经验来看，腐败基本上都由于无能而无疾而终，哪里有腐败说明当地还有自身能力。
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2. His lack of interest in the subjects she started, and his equal incapacity to contribute to her entertainment, were so obvious that she could not conceal her disappointment.
他对于她所提起的一些话头都不感兴趣，想使她快乐他也同样无能为力，这些都是如此明显，她也不能掩盖她的失望了。
- incapacity (n.) 1610s, "lack of ability, powerlessness," from French incapacité (16c.), from Medieval Latin incapacitatem (nominative incapacitas), from Late Latin incapax (genitive incapacis) "incapable," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + Latin capax "capable," literally "able to hold much," from capere "to take," from PIE root *kap- "to grasp." As a legal term (1640s), "lack of qualification," referring to inability to take, receive, or deal with in some way.
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