America’s unwillingness to switch over to the metric system has had serious consequences.

美国不改用公制已经造成严重后果。

People tend to equate it with laziness, which is passive and suggests apathy and an unwillingness to do anything.

人们倾向于把它等同于懒惰，而懒惰是被动的，意味着冷漠和不意做任何事情。

An unwillingness to see the world has changed.

拒绝承认这世界变了。

Well done. But your unwillingness to stick by your diagnosis almost killed this woman.

但是由于你不忠于你的诊断 你差点杀了那个修女。

“We know that Assad will read our silence, our unwillingness to act, as a signal that he can use his weapons with impunity.”

我们知道，阿萨德会将我们的沉默、我们不采取行动的想法他可不受惩罚地动武的信号。

Wilson's unwillingness to compromise helped kill the treaty once and for all. The Senate finally voted again, and the treaty was defeated by seven votes.

威尔逊不意妥协，永久地将其扼杀。参议院最终再次投，条约7差遭到否决。

A fast caused by my ignorance and by my eagerness to plant and unwillingness to study and learn about my crops before I planted them.

是由于我的无知和急于种植造成的，是由于种植前，我不意去学习和研究该如何种植这种庄稼造成的。

He added that the main issue is China's repeated unwillingness to further open its markets.

他补充说，主要问题是中国一再表示，不进一步开放市场。

The kind of cooking the books and unwillingness to face up to the fact that veterans were not being adequately served went on too long.

篡改数据和不面对退伍军人没有受到妥善安置这一事实等问题已经存在了很长时间。

What had changed, says Hayden, was " a growing unwillingness of the American people to outsource this oversight and validation to their elected representatives."

海登还说，不一样的是，“美国民众越来越不意将这种监督和验证的工作委托给他们遴选出的代表了。”

The report said Facebook's unwillingness to act seemed " to reflect a statement of values that protecting free expression is more important than other stated company values" .

该报告称，Facebook不采取行动，看起来" 反映了一种价值观声明，即保护自由表达比其他公开的公司价值观更重要" 。

The real source of the war was the founder's unwillingness to confront the question head on when they were drafting the constitution.

南北战争的真正原因是由于在起草宪法的时候我们的先驱们没有直面这个问题。

I was surprised by how willing most of the subjects were to get involved in the project -I had expected some unwillingness to answer questions honestly.

我对多数参与者的乐意帮忙感到惊讶，我本来预期会有一些人不意回答问题。

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, “That is not leadership. It is that attitude, that unwillingness to sit down and talk to us that has brought about this shutdown, ” said Cantor.

众议院多数派领袖埃里克·坎托, “这与领导权无关，而是态度问题，对方不意坐下来与我们协商，这样政府就关门了。”