That is unhelpfully vague but not necessarily wrong.

这种说法含糊无用，但不一定是错误的。

The ships of the Athenians and their Allies sulked unhelpfully.

雅典人及其同盟军的船只袖手旁观。

But he has taken some unhelpfully rigid positions of late, which Mr Draghi must quickly shift.

只是最近他选择了一些毫无益处的僵硬立场，这是德拉吉必须迅速转变的。

Companies are still unhelpfully shy of hiring preferring to squeeze yet more output from fewer people.

企业就是不愿雇用新人，而是选择从“减员增效”中榨取利益。

To look at the total quantity of water on Earth, some 96.5 per cent of it lies in the oceans (and is, most unhelpfully, salty).

在地球上有96.5%的水是在海洋里，而且是不能食用的咸水。

Unhelpfully for Mr Brown, Alistair Darling, his independent-minded chancellor, stresses the urgency of chipping away at public debt.

（漏了一句，实在看不明白）对布朗不利的是，他的有独立思想的财政大臣达林却还在强调消除国债的紧迫性。

At the spot where it happened, Israel’s security fence runs, unhelpfully, not along the legal frontier, but some 60 metres inside the Jewish state, leaving a no-man’s-land gap.

不幸的是在事发地点，以色列的安全栅栏并不是沿着法定边境线（蓝线），而是在以境内60米处，因而中间区域所属不明。

Unemployment is stuck at 9.5%, even though corporate America is flush with cash. Companies are still unhelpfully shy of hiring, preferring to squeeze yet more output from fewer people.

当月美国失业率仍然高居9.5%，即使美国企业并不缺钱，各大公司依然倾向于从更少的员工中“盘剥”出更多的产出，对解决就业这一难题并无有效的对策。

Drucker's advice to focus on clear and measurable goals has resonated deeply in a country where the most common management injunction is gambare, which loosely (and unhelpfully) means "push yourself".

德鲁克建议关注明确又可衡量的目标，这一建议与将“加油”——仅（也没什么用）指“强迫自己”——作为最普通管理指令的国家产生了深深的共鸣。