| 英语单词 | inefficient |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌɪnɪ'fɪʃnt] 美 [ˌɪnɪ'fɪʃnt] |
| 中文释义 | adj.无效率的;无能的;不称职的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) A second limit on the private-equity recovery is the cockroach-like survival of the region's big and inefficient conglomerates. (2) There are too many inefficient workers in the factory. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 第二个对私募基金获得公司股份的限制是该地区大而无效率的企业的顽强生命力。 (2) 厂里有太多不称职的工人。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Inefficient things waste time, money, or other resources. Your old inefficient dishwasher uses much more water and electricity than a new model would. Shame on you. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Inefficient businesses have trouble making money and growing, and an inefficient city bus system might transport just a few passengers at a time. If your car is inefficient, it gets terrible gas mileage and is expensive to drive. If something is efficient, it's productive and inexpensive. Inefficient has the opposite meaning, which is clear from the "not" prefix in-. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]无效率的;无能的 Inefficient people, organizations, systems, or machines do not use time, energy, or other resources in the best way.
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