People are growing impatient with “idle capacity” (ie, waste).

人们对于物品的闲置（说白了就是浪费）的耐心日益耗尽。

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If the selling division has idle capacity, then a different situation exists.

如果销售部门有潜在的闲置生产能力，则有不同情况存在。

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Growth, when it comes, will be too feeble to stop unemployment rising and idle capacity swelling.

即便能迎来增长，也不足以强劲到止住失业率的攀升和闲置产能的膨胀。

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Unlike other metals where production has been taken offline, there's no idle capacity in the nickel industry.

FORBES: Magazine Article

With a jobless rate of 10.2% and oodles of idle capacity, America still faces a bigger threat from deflation than from inflation.

ECONOMIST: The world economy

Mr Eyzaguirre reckons that, once the world is growing again, Chile's idle capacity will allow it two years of rapid growth before structural reforms need to kick in.

ECONOMIST: Chile's politics