1. If human behaviour is unreformable, social policy can only ever be about trying to cage the ape within.
如果人类的行为不可改造，，社会政策就永远只能是为了把这个猿人关在笼子里。
2. Even a senior United Russian figure recently called the police unreformable; he went on to call for the force`s disbandment.
一位俄罗斯联合党高级官员于最近表示他认为俄罗斯的警察行业已经难以实现改革；同时表示他希望俄罗斯警察集团能够解体。
3. Few are likely to agree with his conclusion that the FDA is unreformable and must be abolished outright—therein lies a tort lawyer''s paradise.
当然很少有人同意弗里德曼的结论即FDA已经无可救药必须被彻底废除（他说FDA给那些靠知识产权案件吃饭的律师提供了天堂）。
4. Just because political leaders in the past have failed to push through bold reforms—Mr Chirac himself, in 1986-88; Alain Juppé, a former prime minister, in 1995—does not mean that the country is unreformable.
因为过去的政治领导人未能推动大胆的改革——如希拉克自己在1986-1988年间（其时希拉克第二次担任法国总理——译注），前总理阿兰·朱佩（ Alain Juppé）在1995年期间——并不意味着这个国家不可改革。
5. To some degree the termites just ate away at the foundations of the Soviet Union, which were already weakened by the system''s own internal contradictions and inefficiencies; to some degree the Reagan administration''s military buildup in Europe forced the Kremlin to bankrupt itself paying for warheads; and to some degree Mikhail Gorbachev''s hapless efforts to reform something that was unreformable brought communism to an end.
一方面，蛀虫们腐蚀掉了已经被体制自身内部的矛盾和拖沓削弱了的根基；一方面，里根当局在欧洲的军事集聚迫使克里姆林宫扩充军备，结果导致国家经济崩溃；一方面，米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫不幸想对一些不能触动的东西进行改革，导致共产主义走向灭亡。