A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
富有成效
Productive
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
效率最低的人通常是最赞成开会的人。
Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
当然，失态不符合这个计划。我们应该是忙碌而富有成效的公民。
It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
把事情简单地白纸黑字写下来，然后用反核或支持核的术语来讨论，是没有成效的。
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
公司是社会组织，是男男女女实现或未能实现有目的和富有成效的生活的舞台。
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
你不可能永远压榨经济中有生产力的部分，以资助对无生产力部分前所未有的大量消费。
Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.
只要我们不把球转过来，我们的效率就会很高。当你把球翻过来的时候，你就减少了进攻的机会。
Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
很多人——我想我也是其中之一——在喝了一点酒后效率更高。我发现如果我喝两到三杯白兰地，我的写作能力会好得多。
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
然而，较老的、较薄的、生产力较低的草地，通常可以用玉米生产比不生产的草地高得多的饲料产量。
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
这里有一种基本的张力。有人说，我想把这片森林砍伐掉，把它砍成锯材，因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。
I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
我一定要负责一些基本的和弦变化，或想法。乐队里的每个人都指望我能做出最基本的种子，所以如果什么都不做是不会有多大成效的。
Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.
因为他们想要更多的广告，他们正在破坏社会的一个非常重要的部分——新闻报道。它正在浪费应该以更有效的方式使用的重要的国家空间。
The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.
我们越慷慨，我们就越快乐。我们越合作，我们就越有价值。我们的热情越高，我们的效率就越高。我们越服事人，就越昌盛。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
我每天都在反对那些说你必须走得更快、更有效率、更有效率、你必须不断超越自己、你必须不断超越你的邻居的力量——所有这些都创造了一个令人难以置信的高效社会，但同时也是一个非常神经质的社会。
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
不是通过增加国家的资本，而是通过使这些资本中比其他情况下更大的一部分具有活性和生产性，使最明智的银行业务能够增加国家的工业。