efficient
/ɪˈfɪʃənt/ 形容词 B1中文： 高效率
- Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. · An efficient process would automate all the routine work.· Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.
- Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input. · The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.
- Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent). · Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained
- effective, efficacious
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And yet, when we closed our door on Monday evening, we were as efficient an office as any in the government service.
“When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum, and there I waited, filling in my too abundant leisure time by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.
These digital approvals are undeniably efficient, but they completely erase the beautiful individuality that a handwritten name once so proudly represented.
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