incapacity
英 [ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti]
美 [ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti]
n. 无能力; 缺乏技能; 卧病; 孱弱
复数：incapacities
BNC.15342 / COCA.24097
同义词辨析
inabilityincapacityincompetence【导航词义：没有能力】
inabilityn. 无法，没能力
〔辨析〕
指无法做某事或没有做某事的能力，其后常用动词不定式。
〔例证〕
Can alcoholism result in an inability to speak?
酒精中毒会导致语言能力丧失吗？
The government's inability to control inflation caused a six-week strike by millions of workers.
政府无力控制通货膨胀导致了数百万工人为期6周的大罢工。
酒精中毒会导致语言能力丧失吗？
The government's inability to control inflation caused a six-week strike by millions of workers.
政府无力控制通货膨胀导致了数百万工人为期6周的大罢工。
incapacityn. 〈正式〉无能力
〔辨析〕
指没有做某事的能力或技能。
〔例证〕
The manager has taken sick leave due to his temporary incapacity through illness.
经理因病暂时不能工作，已经请了病假。
The main problem is the government's incapacity to deal with inflation.
主要问题在于政府对通货膨胀无能为力。
经理因病暂时不能工作，已经请了病假。
The main problem is the government's incapacity to deal with inflation.
主要问题在于政府对通货膨胀无能为力。
incompetencen. 不胜任，不称职
〔辨析〕
指缺少很好地完成工作、任务等的能力或技能。
〔例证〕
Only the board knew that the manager was dismissed for professional incompetence.
只有董事会知道那名经理是因专业方面不称职而被解聘的。
The report blamed government incompetence for the surging unemployment.
该报道指责政府的无能导致了失业人口激增。
只有董事会知道那名经理是因专业方面不称职而被解聘的。
The report blamed government incompetence for the surging unemployment.
该报道指责政府的无能导致了失业人口激增。
牛津词典
noun
- 无能力；缺乏技能
lack of ability or skill- their incapacity to govern effectively
他们缺乏有效治理的能力
- their incapacity to govern effectively
- 卧病；孱弱
the state of being too ill/sick to do your work or take care of yourself- She returned to work after a long period of incapacity.
她病了很长一段时间之后回去工作了。
- She returned to work after a long period of incapacity.
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 无能力
Theincapacity ofa person, society, or systemtodo something is their inability to do it.- ...Europe's incapacity to take collective action...
欧洲无力采取统一行动 - Patients with no mental incapacity can refuse treatment.
没有精神缺陷的病人可以拒绝治疗。
- ...Europe's incapacity to take collective action...
英英释义
noun
- lack of physical or natural qualifications
- lack of intellectual power
双语例句
- Such incapacity ( or inability) that reduces your earning capacity, present or future, in any employment that you were capable of undertaking at that time.
此项伤残所造成的工作能力之丧失（欠缺）会减低你现在及将来从事任何工作时的赚取收入能力。 - Incapacity poses almost as much of a threat to your financial well-being as death does. fortunately, there are tools that can help you cope with this threat.
能力丧失几乎和死亡一样对你的财产构成威胁。幸运的是，有一些工具可以帮助你应对这些问题。 - But the incapacity of national governments to manage international markets has sheltered the largest financial institutions from this capitalism.
但国家政府没有能力管理国际市场，使最大型金融机构避开了这种资本主义。 - Thus do we produce a trained incapacity in the American male to cry.
这样，我们就致使美国男性被训练成不会哭的人了。 - The compensation payable to the injured workman, or his dependants, where permanent incapacity or death results from the injury, shall be paid in the form of periodical payments;
当意外事故导致永久丧失工作能力或死亡时，给予当事人或需要其赡养的家属的赔偿应采用定期支付的形式； - He feigned illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty.
他装病或装作其它形式的无能为力以逃避责任。 - A sole proprietorship ends with the incapacity or death of the owner.
当业主无力经营或死亡的时候，这家个体企业也就宣告结束。 - Chang's errors reflect a fundamental incapacity, and psychological unwillingness, to understand China and its people, their feelings, aspirations, and loyalties.
在理解中国与中国人民，以及他们的感情、愿景与忠诚上，章家敦的错误反映了一种根本上的失能与心理上的不愿意。 - If the drawee death or bankruptcy, or a virtual incapacity of the person or persons contracting with money orders;
如受票人死亡或破产，或为一虚拟之人或无行为能力以汇票缔约之人； - 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。