He was a good butcher but a hopelessly incompetent businessman . 他的屠宰技术不错，但对生意却一窃不通、毫无竞争力。
I wonder his wife didn't prevent him from making such an exhibition of himself . 我想不通他妻子为什么不制止他当众出丑。
Cummings felt a mild contempt at the way binner had mangled the sentence . 听见平讷说了这么一句文理不通的话，卡明斯心里又添了几分鄙夷。
They could not really understand why a superpower should compromise with a smaller regional bully . 他们想不通为什么堂堂一个超级大国要去迁就一个地区小恶霸。
The mail service in the south was uncertain and in the rural districts there was none at all . 南方的邮政业务仍旧是没有定准，何况在这偏僻的区域，简直是全然不通了。
An announcer came on and told listeners, "telephone lines are down everywhere. no trains are running. " 广播员又开始告诉听众们：“各处的电话线都断了。火车也不通了。”
They bought their way out of belgium, and they still don't believe they can't buy their way into the united states . 他们是从比利时买通了路子逃出来的。他们至今还不相信买不通去美国的路子。
She sat opposite her husband, wondering how he could gorge so disgrace-fully when she was angry and unhappy . 她坐在丈夫对面，想不通为什么当她又气恼又伤心的时候，他还能那样没心肝地狼吞虎咽。
This cannot be explained away as a coarse western deficiency; though his taste swung from joyous profanity to extremes of prudishness . 说这是粗鲁的西部人的缺点是解释不通的；虽然他的趣味从快快活活的亵渎神灵到一丝不苟的一本正经。
I tried to phone you but couldn ' t get through 我设法给你打电话，但就是打不通。
