碌碌无能 devoid of ability
incompetent
mediocre
- 董事会充斥着碌碌无为的官僚们,又因为过于事事巨细(董事会须批准每一笔贷款)与做事无能而效绩甚少。
Full of unremarkable bureaucrats, the board achieves the rare distinction of being both too intrusive (it must approve every loan) and also ineffective. - 他十分粗鲁地指责了如今的政策制定者们,并称他们碌碌无能却蒙特殊利益之惠,却使自己的主张和对政府作为主义广泛的信念听起来难免刺耳。
After he has condemned today's policymakers so roundly as incompetent and beholden to special interests, that prescription, and the author's broader faith in government activism, sounds perverse.