His labour predecessors , smiling wryly , could have foreseen the results : promising reforms stalled while unfinished ideas , such as the nhs plan , were casually signed through by an inattentive downing street .

他的前任们，那些工党党员，笑容诡谲，很可能早预料到以下结果：承诺过的改革停滞不前而漫不经心的唐宁街会草率地签署通过尚未完成的想法，比如nhs计划。

Beth-ann left the couch after staring at the news for ten inattentive minutes . She stepped quietly out of the elevator into the basement and saw her laundry basket filled with clothes , dry and folded . Her throat felt parched .

贝丝盯着新闻心不在焉的看了十分钟后站了起来，轻轻地从电梯里出来到了地下室，看到她的洗衣篮里装满了干燥叠好了的衣服，她感到口干舌燥。

Under these circumstances one could forgive the us for lecturing others on fiscal policy , were it not for the fact that poor us financial regulation and inattentive monetary policy caused the crisis in the first place , and its own fiscal policy is a shambles .

在这种情况下，如果不是因为薄弱的美国金融监管和疏忽大意的货币政策首先引发了危机，而且美国自己的财政政策一团糟，那么人们本可以原谅美国对其它国家财政政策的说教。

Two days after the crime , when female legislators sought to speak about it in the upper house of the indian parliament , they had to insist and shout for more time as the speaker repeatedly told them that the house had other business to attend to ; their male colleagues were largely inattentive .

案发之后的俩天，当女性立法委员寻求在印度议会上议院上谈论此事的时候，她们不得不坚持并一次次大声抗议，因为会议发言人一遍遍地重复着会议还有其它的事情要关注；她们的男同事则大不部分漫不经心。

The us adminstration 's foreign policy has drawn criticism at home from republicans arguing it is too soft on america 's enemies and , abroad , from europeans complaining barack obama is inattentive towards his friends .

美国政府的外交政策招致了许多批评在国内，共和党人指责它对美国的敌人太过于手软；在国外，欧洲人抱怨巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）对他的朋友漫不经心。