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/ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt/ · /ˌɪnəˈfɪʃənt/
not using time, money, or energy in the best way; something that more than it needs to get the job done.
沒有效率的；效率低的
比較級 more inefficient最高級 most inefficient
核心畫面
Picture two to the same place: one goes straight there, the other loops around three times and burns twice the fuel. inefficient describes the second one — the job may still get done, but more time, money or energy leaks away on the way than the job actually needed.
可以想成同一個地方有兩條路可以走：一條直直過去，另一條繞了三圈、還多燒一倍的油。inefficient 講的是後面那…更多收起
可以想成同一個地方有兩條路可以走：一條直直過去，另一條繞了三圈、還多燒一倍的油。inefficient 講的是後面那一條——事情最後也許還是做完了，但路上漏掉、耗掉的時間、金錢或力氣，比這件事真正需要的多。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inefficientadj/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
- 1
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
- Celery is an inefficient food.
- 2
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
- inefficient workers
- an inefficient administrator
inefficientnoun/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
- 1
A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
- Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]
- A general shaking up of the workers from top to bottom would result; and when equilibrium had been restored, the number of the inefficients at the bottom of the Abyss would have been increased by hundreds of thousands.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。