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They set up a sharpened stake in the square beside the harbour, stripped the hapless hero naked and lowered him on to it.

土耳其人在码头旁边的广场上竖起了一根木桩，将这个倒霉的英雄剥得一丝不挂并把他置于桩上。

The hapless lynx turns and twists in a vain attempt to throw its pursuer off the chase, but the hunter will not be denied.

倒霉的山猫徒劳地折来折去，想摆脱追它的猎手，可猎手却毫不罢休。

It seems that many of the weird space launch tales involve some sort of hapless animal. This one is no different.

很多航天发射的怪异事件里都有倒霉动物的身影，这次也不例外。

See What Happened! See what happened! Hapless Peter turned into a parking meter. On the club he stands all day, wishing dogs would go away.

瞧瞧发生了什么事！瞧瞧发生了什么事！倒霉的彼得变成一具停车计费器了。他在杆子上站了一整天，多么希望狗儿们快快走远。

Biological Disorders that (like diseases) people "get" or to which they fall hapless victim.

生物性紊乱（像一些疾病）的人“受益”或是沦为了倒霉的受害者。

Even in defeat he may, like Samson, be ready to pull down the pillars of his rickety regime on his hapless people.

即使被击败，他也可能像参孙那样，随时准备拉倒利比亚摇摇欲坠的政权支柱，砸在不幸的本国人民身上。

Before, "there was a barrier, " and Libya's hapless young men were to be pitied, Khalil said.

在此之前，我和这些看起来可怜的利比亚年轻男子之间还有隔膜。

Mr. Smith has had an affair. Mrs. Smith, devastated, seems to be the hapless victim.

当时，史密斯先生有了一桩外遇，而史密斯夫人对此极为震惊，她似乎是一位无辜的受害者。

But if the virus or bacterium is one that our hapless rider has never wrestled, a different sort of immune response comes to the rescue.

但如果这种病毒或细菌是我们从来没遇过的，就会有另一套不同的免疫反应前来搭救。

The drama in the stocks of banks at the centre of the rumours, with Royal Bank of Scotland the latest hapless victim, did not permit that.

身处传言中心的银行股票的戏剧性表现就是个障碍——苏格兰皇家银行（RoyalBankofScotland）是最新的不幸受害者。

And Afghanistan, that complicated, hapless place, has long been a victim of its geography.

时局复杂，命运多舛的阿富汗，长久以来一直由于其地理环境而深受其害。

Still another segment of the public looks upon service members as hapless victims, and unfortunately for many, this is all too true.

民众对于美国大兵的另一种看法就是倒霉蛋，不幸的是，这种看法对于许多美国大兵来说是一针见血。

Vercel, the hapless real estate agent is falsely persecuted by the police for murdering his wife and her lover.

地产经纪人维素被警方认定就是杀害妻子及其情夫的凶手，倒楣的他只好亡命出走躲藏起来。

At Enron the names should also have been a clue to hapless investors and staff that something was amiss.

安然（Enron）许多人的名字本来也应该给那些倒霉的投资者和员工一些提醒：要出问题了。

The parable of the hapless Ms Dunn makes clear that separating the two top jobs is no guarantee of a harmonious board.

倒霉的邓恩女士就像是一则寓言，它明白地告诉我们：将两个头等职位相分离并不能确保拥有一个和谐的董事会。

The hapless beggar did not implore Scrooge to bestow anything on him.

那个可怜的乞丐没有求Scrooge给他点什么。

Players scurried for cover when the hapless pilot set the chopper down on the letter "H" painted in the corner of the cricket ground.

当倒霉的飞行员把直升机降落在印有“H”字样的场地上时，赛手们四处逃散。

The hapless Gray Davis had been recalled, and the Austrian-born actor made a promising start to break the pattern.

不幸的戴维斯州长被罢免了，而这个奥地利出生的演员却保证要打破颓局。

Troopers hustle the hapless duty guard to Norton's door as he fumbles nervously with a huge key ring .

州警把倒霉的值班警卫推到门前，他发抖着摸出一大串钥匙。

Customers embrace its iconic device, and then, like the hapless Trojans, find they have fallen into the hands of the gift-givers.

消费者信奉的是它的苹果徽标，然而之后却像不幸的特洛伊一样，发现自己落入了送礼人的圈套之中。