If your time log shows your efficiency ratio to be on the low side, try severely limiting your total amount of working time for a day, and see what happens.

假如你的日程表显示你的效率比十分低下，那就试着在一天中严格限制你的工作总时间，看看成果如何。

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So would I, but didn't see a way of getting that without limiting what could be expressed or compromising efficiency.

我也这么想，不过找不到可以不限制表达能力或牺牲效率的实现方法。

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Water is usually considered to be the key limiting factor for growth of desert plants, yet there is little information available of the water use efficiency of species within a desert community.

水分通常是影响荒漠植物生长的主要限制因子，然而当前很少有关于荒漠群落中植物水分利用效率的报道。

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But as a direct-mail-dependent operation that raises its money mostly from small donors, we could only increase our efficiency percentage by limiting our mailings to the most productive mailing lists.

FORBES: Clean Hit?

The system of homogenised best practices stimulated efficiency but it also blocked deviations from the standard, consequently limiting the discovery of new innovations.

FORBES: Management myths