"My complaint journalists, " a friend of mine once said, "is not that they behave badly in the course of duty, but their inability to recoil into a human being when it's over." "我对记者不满意", 我的一位朋友说，"并非因为他们在完成任务的过程中表现得差劲，而是因为在事情都完结了以后他们仍然不能恢复其做为人的本性。"
The book's weakness is the author's inability to sustain an argument. 该书的缺点在于作者未能把论证展开。
His inability to speak French puts him at a disadvantage. 他不会说法语，这使他很吃亏。
The persistent inability to conceive a child. 不孕持续的不能怀孕的能力
