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Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
国会对于近期行贿丑闻的回应是给说客强加了琐细的限制条款。
“REVOLUTION” is an overused word; the latest footling change often hyped into the biggest revolution since the last one.
时下“革命”是个烂词，任何最新的无用的变化经常夸张的称之为上一次革命以来最大的革命。
Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America’s high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.
除非经济强劲反弹的力度大到能将美国的高失业率降下来，不然这种动作不大的政策将作用有限。

This footling stuff is only of any interest because it is about the queen.
ECONOMIST: Why the queen has to be seen to be believed
Treasury traditionalists may regard these apparently footling changes as a shocking breach of time-honoured tradition.
ECONOMIST: Taxation
Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation—far more so than obeying footling little rules.
ECONOMIST: Edward Shevardnadze, Georgia’s foxy president