IF the consequences were not so serious, it would be tempting to mock the fiascos and flip-flops of America's intelligence services.

如果不是结果如此严肃的话，人们还以为这是一次对美国情报部门颠三倒四和接连失败的嘲弄。

Second, he reckons that it bolstered his efforts to improve the shoddy quality of manufacturing, to protect the firm from future fiascos.

其次，他认为这件事促使他改善低劣的制造工艺，否则公司今后极有可能在这一点上一败涂地。

We're certainly the experts on liability reduction, fiascos, and amazing PR”, tweeted Fake Lucas Van Praag, who impersonates the public-relations chief of Goldman Sachs on Twitter.

不可否认地，我们是削减负债、收拾残局以及魅力公关的专家” 伪卢卡斯•范•普拉格（Fake Lucas Van Praag）在Twitter上如此模仿高盛（Goldman Sachs）公关总监的口吻。

Food sellers deciding how to inform consumers about nutritional quality is a classic case of the fox guarding the hen house, and results in feather-flying fiascos like Smart Choices.

由卖食品的来决定如何将食品中的营养成份告知消费者，就好像让狐狸来看鸡窝一样，结果肯定是类似“聪明的选择”那样鸡毛满天飞的闹剧。