The agent I bought the ticket from was a fly-by-night operator.

向我买票的代理商是个靠不住的经营商。

His wonkier policy moves have been equally controversial.

那更靠不住的政策举措同样充满了争议。

He disliked taking students of Muggle parentage, believing them to be untrustworthy.

不愿意接收麻瓜生的孩子，认为们是靠不住的。

I grieve to find, however, that Colonel F. is not disposed to depend upon their marriage; he shook his head when I expressed my hopes, and said he feared W.

不过，听到弗上校不大相信们俩会结婚，我又不免伤心。我把我的心愿说给听，只是频频摇头，又说韦恐怕是个靠不住的人。

This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.

这项工作做完，木当做出假腿来，并且提供所有需的配件，那条已经靠不住的假腿上的配件一律抛开。

There was a unifying, exhilarating clarity to that wonky diagram, to the way it defined the task.

那张靠不住的图表及其改天换地的构想却体现出一种前后贯通、振奋人心的明朗。

Just can't be friends with flaky people.

真的不能和靠不住的人做朋友。

However, these dodgy clients do spend quite a lot of money.

然而，这些靠不住的客户确实花了不少钱。

You're tired of fake friends, flaky plans, and emotional one-way streets.

你厌倦了虚伪的朋友、靠不住的约定，以及情感上的单行道。

Then clearly, you've got a dodgy reason for why you're doing that.

那么显然，你之所以这么做，背后一定有个靠不住的理由。

Her loyalty is fundamentally not, let's put it that way.

她的忠诚从根本上说是靠不住的。

Better a thousand times that he should pass into utter nothingness than that he should live and be the Gadfly—the Gadfly, with his faultless neckties and his doubtful witticisms, his bitter tongue and his ballet girl!

宁愿彻底消失一千次，也不愿活着成为牛虻——那个打着无可挑剔的领带，说着靠不住的俏皮话，口舌犀利却像芭蕾女孩一样的牛虻！

The unfortunate reality is: lies are more engaging online than truth, and salaciousness beats out wonky, fact-based reasoning in a world optimized for frictionless virality.

不幸的现实是：谎言在网上比真相更引人入胜，在一个为无摩擦病毒式传播而优化的世界中， 淫秽战胜了靠不住的、基于事实的推理。

Once you've texted the same friend two or three times in a row to cancel, you've become the flaky friend.

一旦你连续两三次发短信给同一个朋友取消约定，你成了那个靠不住的朋友。

No matter what I feel or don't, we're not safe.

不论我还有没有感觉，我们的感情靠不住。

Impossible. I grieve to find, however, that Colonel F. is not disposed to depend upon their marriage; he shook his head when I expressed my hopes, and said he feared W. was not a man to be trusted.

这件事绝对不可能！不过，听到弗上校不大相信们俩会结婚，我又不免伤心。我把我的心愿说给听，只是频频摇头，又说韦恐怕是个靠不住的人。

The moment I cross the threshold of a bank and attempt to transact business there, I become an irresponsible idiot.

一跨过银行的门槛，打算在那里办理业务，我变成一个靠不住的白痴。