They were looking for suitable ways of maximising their electoral support. 他们正在寻找合适的途径来最大限度地获得选民的支持。
"The focus on maximising shareholder value causes some students to minimise other important codes of behaviour," he says. 对股东价值最大化的关注,让一些学生将其它重要行为准则最小化。
"Whether it's feng shui or lucky numbers, it's about maximising your opportunities," adds Jeremy Gordon, chief executive of China Business Services, a consultancy. “无论是风水,还是幸运数字,它们的真正意义在于将机会最大化,”咨询公司中国商务服务(ChinaBusinessServices)首席执行官杰里米•戈登(JeremyGordon)补充道。
Barbara's strengths lie in maximising the behavioural change of individuals and groups for individual or organisational streamlining. 笆笆拉博士的优势在于将个人和团体的行为变化极大化,从而提高个人或者团体的绩效。
Often choosing what we know we like-the same again-is the best option for maximising pleasure. 经常选择我们喜欢的又是同样的是把快乐增加到最大限度的绝佳选择。
But if investors remain fixated on maximising short term returns, capital will not necessarily flow to companies making the necessary investment to adapt to climate change, or help mitigate it. 但是如果投资者仍痴迷于短期利益最大化,资金就未必会流向那些为适应或帮助缓解气候变化而进行必要投资的企业。
Neoclassical economics says that we act as if considering all possible outcomes, figuring out the probability and utility of each outcome, multiplying the probabilities with the utilities, and maximising expected utility. 新古典主义经济学认为,我们表现得就好像考虑到了所有可能的结果、计算出了每种结果的可能性和效用,把可能性与效用相乘,以实现预期效用的最大化。
These banks have split and incompatible objectives maximising profits ( there was a time when they used to make them) for their shareholders on the one hand, and obliging the latest political desires on the other. 这些银行的目标割裂而且不可调和一方面要实现股东利润的最大化(他们曾经经常这样做),另一方面则要满足最新的政治需要。
"Maximising shareholder value" is supposed to discipline managers, but only does so if shareholders have some say at least in choosing those who represent them. 应该用“股东价值最大化”来约束管理者,但要想达到这一目的,股东必须具有一定的发言权至少在选择自己的代言人上。
Such caution is common in Kyoto, where some companies are hundreds of years old and many owners and bosses see their long-term goal as preserving the business for future generations rather than maximising profit growth. 这种谨慎心理在京都很常见,因为这里的一些企业有着数百年历史,很多企业主和老板的长远目标是保护好企业、以求交到子孙后代手里,而不是实现利润最大化。
It is already failing one of its two mandates: maximising employment. 美联储已未能完成其两项使命之一:就业最大化。
Rather than focusing on maximising shareholder profit, our main aim is to generate profit to further the causes of justice, humanity and the environment through the auto manufacturing business. 而不是股东利益最大化为重点,我们的主要目的是产生利润,进一步通过汽车生产企业的正义事业,人类和环境。
If he is serious about maximising production, reversing that would be a good start. 如果布朗慎重对待油气产量增至最大值的决议,对以往油气税率进行前后颠倒的做法或许将是一个不错的开始。
The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. 代理人更感兴趣的是手续费收入最大化,而非保护债券持有者的利益。
But the other fund could invest in higher risk assets, aimed at maximising returns. 不过,另外一项基金可能要投资于风险更高的资产,目标是将收益最大化。
In spite of their rhetoric, they are not usually designed to get the best out of individuals but rather geared to maximising efficiency by means of strict processes, systems and structures. 虽然嘴上说得好听,但是一般来说,他们的宗旨并不是让个人最大限度地发挥出才能,而是力求通过严格的流程、制度和结构,实现效率最大化。
And if asset managers are compensated for maximising short-term value while saying they are focused on long-term value, they are fully capable of doing exactly that. 如果资产管理者在声称注重长期价值的同时,却因实现短期价值的最大化而获得报酬,他们就完全有能力这么做。
Some charge that the values imparted in MBA programmes maximising shareholder value and personal gain, for instance put too much emphasis on making money and too little on social considerations. 有人指责mba课程灌输的价值观比如使股东价值和个人私利最大化太注重赚钱,太少考虑社会因素。
Then as now, they hoped to minimise the services while maximising the revenues. 和现在一样,他们希望将服务最少化,收入最大化。
Mr Maiman said Riyadh was in the final stages of approving the formation of the investment company, which would be a "portfolio investor focusing on maximising long-term rates of return". 梅曼表示,沙特政府对组建投资公司的审批进入了最后阶段,该投资公司将是“专注于实现长期回报率最大化的投资组合投资者”。
Maximising profit and incessantly maintaining economic growth are central to the western industrial economic model. 让利润最大化和不断维持经济增长对西方工业经济模型至关重要。
Maximising the benefits and minimising the costs of water storage will mean tailoring solutions to a wide range of complex and inter-related hydrological, social, economic and environmental factors. 让水储存的收益最大化并让成本最小化将意味着让解决方案适合一大批复杂而相互关联的水文、社会、经济和环境因素。
Multinational companies said they faced pressure from investors and their employees to demonstrate a social purpose, rather than just maximising profits. 跨国公司表示,它们面临着来自于投资者和员工的压力,要求公司彰显社会价值,而不仅仅是将利润最大化。
Third: deploy the public sector to invigorate local economies by maximising the multiplier effect of public services. 第三:尽可能扩大公共服务的倍乘效应,利用公共部门提振地方经济。
How can I overcome my hang-up and become a maximising consumer? 我怎么解决这个难题,并成为一位价值最大化的消费者?
All this points to the optimal gift-giving strategy: you need to minimise the deadweight loss while maximising the sentimental value. 所有这些都指向了最优送礼策略:你需要将无谓损失最小化,同时将情感价值最大化。
If I'm being honest, there have not been many stages in my England career when I have thought that we have been maximising our talent. 但是说实话,我觉得我在英格兰国家队的比赛很少让我觉得我们很大程度上浪费了我们的才能。
Markowitz showed how investors could pick an optimal portfolio of assets, minimising risk for any given expected return, or maximising expected return for any given risk. 马科维茨给出了投资者如何建立最佳资产投资组合的方法,能在给定预期收益的情况下实现风险最小化或在给定风险的情况下实现预期收益最大化。
The awards recognise the progress banks are making in integrating social, environmental and corporate objectives into their operations while maximising shareholder value. 这些奖项旨在肯定银行实现股东价值最大化的同时,在业务经营中融合社会、环境、公司治理目标方面所取得的成绩。