This approach would require systematically tackling the factors that currently make Chinese cities so inefficient.

这种做法要求系统地解决目前导致中国城市如此低效的问题。

youdao

That's because they're so inefficient that even more coal has to be burned to produce the same amount of electricity.

因为它们能效很低，甚至为取得同样的电能而不得不燃烧更多的煤。

youdao

That could explain why the process is so inefficient: Only a small fraction of cells happens to receive the correct dose.

这也能解释为什么这个过程如此低效：只有很小一部分细胞恰好获得合适的剂量。

youdao

Alright, so it's inefficient.

因为它效率较低。

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In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

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