to be unable to cope
system +难以应对
The speed of economic change has been so great that the tax-collecting system has been unable to cope.经济变化的速度太快, 税收制度难以跟上。
The country's prisons are filled with drug-takers, and cannot cope with the numbers.这个国家的监狱关满了吸毒者, 数量之大令其难以应对。