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The ham-fisted efforts of Tokyo Electric Power ( TEPCO) to stem the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant have exposed the company for what it is: an inept monopoly so big it could co-opt or run rings around its regulators.

东京电力公司为遏制福岛核电站危机所做出的拙手笨脚的努力充分暴露了公司的本质：一个无能的垄断巨头，它既可以增补管理人员，又可以在处事能力上遥遥领先于管理人员。

"I think there's concerns about the disruption," he said on CNN's" State of the Union," calling the scheduling of the speech a "little ham-fisted" by the White House.

“对于这样的打扰存在忧虑，”他在CNN说“在联邦的一个州”安排这样的演讲对于白宫来说有些笨拙。

So-called "trade defence" instruments such as antidumping are ham-fisted ways of managing the immensely complex supply chains of the modern global economy.

对于现代全球经济极其复杂的供应链来说，反倾销等所谓的“贸易防御”手段代表着笨拙的管理方式。