misapplying

misapplying

1. He spent two terms misapplying the old foreign policy doctrines of the Cold War to a new security threat and exploiting the old enmities of the Culture Wars to shore up his power.

他在两个任期内把过时的冷战外交政策误用于新的安全威胁，并利用文化战争的积怨巩固自己的地位。

2. And back home in Crowley, La., her father, Edmund Reggie, a longtime judge and political insider, was facing felony charges of misapplying bank money.

而当她回到克罗利和路易斯安那州的家里，她的父亲Edmund Reggie，一个长久以来在法律界和政界的权威人士，正面临着滥用银行公款的重大指控。