喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ɪˈfɪʃənt/有效率的

    Working well and getting good results without wasting time, money, or energy.

    示範例句 · Example

    Aisha is an efficient student who finishes her homework quickly and well.

    逐字Aisha 是個有效率的學生，功課又快又好地完成。

    efficient 形容人或東西「做事順、不浪費時間、金錢或能量」。可以想成「用最少的力氣，做出最好的結果」。跟 effective 容易搞混：efficient 重點在「過程不浪費」，effective 重點在「真的有達到效果」。

    常見搭配

    • highly efficient

      非常有效率的

      working extremely well without waste

      The new sorting system is highly efficient.

    • energy efficient

      節能的

      using little energy to work

      We bought an energy efficient fridge.

    • an efficient way

      有效率的方法

      a method that saves time and effort

      Cycling is an efficient way to get around town.

    • efficient use of something

      有效率地使用某物

      using something without waste

      This is an efficient use of space.

    意思相近

    effectiveproductivecapablewell-organizedstreamlined

core核心畫面

One way to picture efficient: the result comes out, and very little is spilled on the way — little time, little money, little energy wasted. It says nothing about whether the result was the right one to aim at; that is what effective covers.

可以想成 efficient 是「結果出來了，而且路上幾乎沒有灑掉什麼」——時間、金錢、力氣都沒浪費。它並沒有說這個結果本身對不對、值不值得追求，那是 effective 負責的事。

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意思相近

effectiveproductivecapablewell-organizedstreamlined

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

efficientadj/ɪˈfɪʃənt/

  • 1

    Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.

    • An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
    • Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.
  • 2

    Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.

    • The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.
  • 3

    Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).

    • Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained
    • It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
  • 4

    effective, efficacious

    • Ye wake no more to anguish;‥ ye have borne The Chosen, the Destroyer!‥ soon his hand Shall strike the efficient blow; Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye, With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves, Hymn the Deliverer’s praise!
    • The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect

efficientnoun/ɪˈfɪʃənt/

  • 1

    obsoleteA cause; something that causes an effect.

    • Some are without efficient, as God; others without matter, as Angels […].
    • This implies, that something happens without a cause. If it should be said, that motive in this case is not the efficient of the action or doing — this is granted; but at the same time, for reasons already given, it is denied, that the man himself is the efficient cause of it.

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