Inefficient
[ɪnɪ'fɪʃ(ə)nt] or [,ɪnɪ'fɪʃnt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not producing desired results; wasteful; 'an inefficient campaign against drugs'; 'outdated and inefficient design and methods' .
阿纳托尔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
(a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
哈洛錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Weak, feeble, impotent, powerless.
整理:保罗
例句/造句/用法:
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Such machines were confessedly inefficient, although representing the farthest reach of a young art. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The best fine grinding-machines that it was then possible to obtain were so inefficient as to involve a loss of 82 per cent. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Not possible--or so inefficient, so careless a mamma; I should make a five times better one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Ledlie besides being otherwise inefficient, proved also to possess disqualification less common among soldiers. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
整理:保罗