The judge`s answer came across as hapless and pathetic.

法官吐露出的答复令人感到丧气和没有希望的。

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We have explained that Planet X positions itself along themagnetic flow lines of the Sun as it round the S. Pole of the Sunand rises to the Ecliptic, while heading toward the hapless Earthin its path.

我们已经解释过了，行星X在围绕太阳南极点，上升到黄道的时候会沿著太阳的磁力线进行定位，在其轨道上朝著不幸的地球而来。

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President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.

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Mr. Ives's hapless characters are all trying to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, usually in the most circuitous of ways.

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Mr Hague's personal ratings have plumbed depths not seen since Michael Foot's hapless leadership of Labour in the 1980s.

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