an inefficient heating system
效率不佳的暖气系统
inefficient government
无能的政府
an extremely inefficient secretary
极不称职的秘书
inefficient use of time and energy
时间和精力的浪费
1.无效力的,无能力的,效能差的,不称职的
1.not working in the best possible way, especially by not using time, supplies, energy, etc. in the most effective way
1.And though they have demonstrated that this goal is possible, the means for doing so have been inefficient and expensive.
有些科学家已经证实过这样做是可以实现的，但是方法一度效率低下且成本昂贵。
2.An inefficient search returns candidate parties that are too numerous or not similar enough to be relevant.
低效搜索返回包含太多或不相似的无关内容的候选参与方。
3.The company whose business used to prosper has turned out to be crippled by inefficient management and lack of competitive products.
这家公司过去生意兴隆，而现在由于管理不力，缺乏竞争性的产品陷入了瘫痪状态。
4.When it comes to testing these objects, it is often expensive, impractical, or inefficient to instantiate these collaborators.
当开始测试这些对象时，实例化这些合作者（collaborator）通常是昂贵的、不切实际的或效率低的。
5.It is jolly expensive and inefficient and a ludicrous waste of effort, especially when you think of all that commuting.
它成本高昂，效率低下，会愚蠢地浪费精力，尤其是在想到所有那些交流的时候。
6.In addition, gasification is often inefficient, leaving behind significant amounts of solid waste at the end of the process.
此外，气化过程往往效率很低，气化后会留下大量的固体废物。
7.An inefficient tax system is a luxury the country might have been able to afford when the economy and tax receipts were healthier.
此前，当英国经济更加健康、税收收入较多时，国家可能还负担得起一个奢侈的低效税收制度。但现在，英国负担不起。
8.Local iterators would be very inefficient and may not be able to meet the complexity requirements.
局部迭代器将会非常低效，可能无法满足复杂度的要求。
9.As it turns out you were wrong to think that she was inefficient-she's the best secretary I've ever had.
结果证明你认为她无能是错的——她是我有过的最好的秘书。
10.For very large parsed documents, such a two-step approach might be inefficient, but I find it easier to understand code written this way.
对于特别大的被解析的文档来说，这种两步方法可能是低效的，但是我发现这样更容易理解编写的代码。