Lots of false starts, missteps and mistakes.
很多错误的开始, 错误的步骤和错误的结果。
This vanity, together with bungled trials, missteps and a lack of co-operation, put the cost of developing these uniforms at more than $12m, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2012.
根据美国政府问责局(GAO)2012的一份报告,这种虚荣心,加上被搞砸的实验,失误和欠缺合作,使得开发这些制服的费用超过了1200万美元。
Klobuchar over the issue of sexism that she intimated had favored the city mayor and Harris over a Buttigieg campaign misstep that saw a stock photo of a Kenyan woman used to illustrate an African American woman on his website.
Klobuchar曾暗示支持市长和Harris,因为Buttigie因为竞选失误中在网站上用一名肯尼亚女性的照片,用来展示一名非洲裔美国女性。
" And if I should seem cruel or mocking or indifferent when men are watching, forgive me, child. I have a role to play, and you must do the same. One misstep and our heads will adorn the walls as did your father's" .
" 还有,假如旁人在场时,我现得冷酷无情,或是对您冷嘲热讽,甚至根本无动于衷,孩子,请您千万见谅。我有我扮演的角色,您也是一样。只需一个闪失,我们两人的头就会如令尊一样挂上城墙。"