经理们最后终于明白不能再满足于低效率的运作。

Managers have at last got it into their heads that they can no longer rest content with inefficient operations.

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非国有企业逐渐排挤掉了那些低效率的国有企业。

Non-state firms gradually elbow aside the inefficient state-owned ones.

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由于这种能源大部分来自化石燃料的使用，浪费食物可能导致不必要的全球变暖以及低效率的资源利用。

Since much of this energy comes from the utilization of fossil fuels, wastage of food potentially contributes to unnecessary global warming as well as inefficient resource utilization.

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So in other words, this engine is running less efficiently than my Carnot engine.

也就是说，这个热机的效率,比卡诺热机低。

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If I were starting a new company, I would look for some large, fast-growing industry that was inefficient, and was not keeping pace with the changes that are possible.

要是开一家新公司的话，我会找一些大的，发展迅速但是效率较低的，没有跟上,变化的行业。

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