Unproductive
[ʌnprə'dʌktɪv] or ['ʌnprə'dʌktɪv]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not producing desired results; 'the talks between labor and management were unproductive' .
(adj.) not producing or capable of producing; 'elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries' .
胡安娜校對--From WordNet
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Unfruitful, barren, unprolific, sterile, unprocreant, UNPROFITABLE.
校對:沃尔多
解釋/意思:
adj. not productive profitable or efficient not effecting some particular result (with of).—adv. Unproduc′tively.—ns. Unproduc′tiveness; Unproductiv′ity.
杰拉尔德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the one way, besides, this expense maintains productive, in the other unproductive hands. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mercantile stock is equally barren and unproductive with manufacturing stock. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It can never be the interest of the unproductive class to oppress the other two classes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The superior produce of the one class, however, does not, render the other barren or unproductive. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The whole, or almost the whole public revenue is, in most countries, employed in maintaining unproductive hands. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They might both maintain indifferently, either productive or unproductive hands. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is, therefore, altogether a barren and unproductive expense. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The rent of land and the profits of stock are everywhere, therefore, the principal sources from which unproductive hands derive their subsistence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The letter was not unproductive. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It would depress productive labour, by encouraging too hastily that labour which is altogether barren and unproductive. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The unproductive class, however, is not only useful, but greatly useful, to the other two classes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The rent of houses is paid for the use of an unproductive subject. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The former as it produces a value, may be called productive, the latter, unproductive labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But, upon this account alone, the denomination of barren or unproductive should seem to be very improperly applied to it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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