SHIFTING consumer tastes and changing regulations have forced even the clumsiest of retail behemoths to be more fleet-footed.

随着顾客口味的改变以及业内规则变化，即便最糟糕的零售巨兽也飞速发展起来。

For example, Charles Stoddard argues that America has one of the clumsiest systems of popular government in the Western world.

例如，查理斯·斯多德·尔德争论道：在西方世界受欢迎却又不得体的政府系统中，美国拥有其中之一。

The clumsiest most economic object the holes pierced in an oil can to make a fire a folding lantern a ball of string or a floor tile.

最粗糙、最廉价的东西、一个开几个孔来点火的油罐、一只折叠手提灯、—团线或一块地砖。