uncompetitive

adj.

1. 无竞争力的；竞争力弱的
   not cheaper or better than others and therefore not able to compete equally
   1. an uncompetitive industry
      无竞争力的行业
   2. uncompetitive prices
      缺乏竞争力的价格

1. The City was criticised for being too exclusive and uncompetitive.
   伦敦城被指责过于奢华和缺乏竞争力。
2. While they remain highly uncompetitive to fossil fuels, they have overtaken nuclear on a cost per kilowatt basis.
   尽管和化石燃料相比它们还很不具备竞争优势，但基于每千瓦的成本计算，它们已比核能更占上风。
3. Those taxes are passed through businesses, making French goods very expensive and ultimately uncompetitive on the world market.
   企业税负重导致法国商品十分昂贵，最终在国际市场上失去了竞争力。
4. Thus, the economy will be uncompetitive and depressed for years, if not decades.
   因此，希腊经济缺乏竞争力且萎靡不振的局面将持续数年乃至数十年。
5. Without the option of devaluing their currencies, uncompetitive economies are left with internal devaluation – otherwise known as wage cuts and mass unemployment. It is true that countries such as Greece badly need economic reforms.
   对竞争力较弱的经济体来说，如果排除让本国货币贬值的选择，留给它们的就剩下内部贬值这一方案了，也就是减薪和大规模的裁员。诚然，诸如希腊这样的国家亟需进行经济改革。
6. During booms, they squander revenues, allow export sectors to become uncompetitive, postpone reforms and succumb to corruption and weak governance – all of which undermine long-run performance.
   在繁荣时期，它们挥霍财政收入，任凭出口领域失去竞争力，延迟改革，陷于腐败和不力的治理，所有这些都损害了长期经济表现。
7. Soaring wage and price inflation would restore the uncompetitive status quo.
   飙涨的薪资和高企的物价将使今天缺乏竞争力的一幕重新上演。
8. The enforcement mechanisms for budgetary discipline were ignored by big and smaller members alike, including Germany; peripheral economies in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, which soared on the back of low interest rates, have been exposed as uncompetitive.
   包括德国在内的大小成员国，都无视预算纪律的实施机制；而希腊、爱尔兰、葡萄牙和西班牙等外围经济体，凭借低利率而实现了急剧增长，却一直存在缺乏竞争力的问题。
9. Until this season, marred by the'lie-gate'scandal and the uncompetitive MP4-24 McLaren, the Briton's career largely consisted of a series of plaudits and successes.
   直到本赛季，受到的'谎言门'丑闻和竞争力的MP4-24迈凯轮，巴顿的职业生涯基本上包括了一系列的喝彩和成功。
10. A long-term transfer of resources to uncompetitive members would be a disaster, enfeebling recipients and bankrupting providers.
    长期将资源转移到缺乏竞争力的成员国将是一场灾难，它将削弱受援者的能力，并让提供者破产。
11. It is therefore in the industrial countries to adopt structural adjustment policies that will phase out the uncompetitive production of textile and clothing.
    因此，采取结构调整政策，淘汰缺乏竞争能力的纺织品和服装生产部门，是对工业国有利的。
12. A voluntary, three-year grubbing-up scheme to encourage uncompetitive producers to leave the industry will be put in place.
    一项自愿的、为期3年的淘汰方案将开始实施，鼓励没有竞争力的生产商离开该产业。
13. This is making Chinese imports even cheaper for Europeans-good news for consumers and companies making products in China for export to Europe, but bad news for exporters and uncompetitive industries in Europe itself.
    这使得欧洲人从中国的进口变得更加便宜－对消费者和中国的生产出口到欧洲的产品的公司来说这是好消息，但是对欧洲的出口企业和无竞争力的行业来说是坏消息。
14. Compared with what is quoted by other suppliers, your price is uncompetitive.
    与其他供应商报出的价格相比，你们的价格没有竞争力。
15. Industry groups have warned this would make EU banks uncompetitive in rival markets in Asia and the US.
    行业组织警告称，这将使欧盟银行在亚洲和美国等市场失去竞争力。
16. This is both useful for those firms that are currently uncompetitive, and preferable for society, because wage cuts are more equitable than unemployment.
    这不仅有益于那些目前没有竞争力的企业，对社会来说也是更好的选择，因为减薪要比失业更为公平。
17. The minister believes that higher taxes would make industry uncompetitive.
    该部长认为提高税收会使工业失去竞争力。
18. The citizens of uncompetitive economies are already exhausted by austerity, and Germany and the other creditor nations are reluctant to run deficits.
    无竞争力国家的居民已经被经济紧缩榨干了，但德国和其他债权国还是不愿意安排赤字。
19. If Italy remains stuck in an uncompetitive recession and is unable to regain market access then, even if such large official resources were mobilised, they would be wasted on financing investors 'exits – simply postponing an inevitable, disorderly debt restructuring.
    如果意大利依然陷入一场毫无竞争力的衰退，无法重新进入市场融资，那么即便是动用了如此巨大的官方资源，那也只是浪费资金帮助投资者退出&不过是推迟了一场不可避免、无序的债务重组。
20. On a more minor, but practical level, some emerging markets – most notably Brazil – imposed controls on inflows of hot money last year, to prevent their currencies being boosted to hopelessly uncompetitive levels.
    在更微小但实际的层面上，一些新兴市场（特别是巴西）去年对热钱的流入实施了管制，以阻止本国货币被推升至严重缺乏竞争力的水平。
21. Floating currencies are forced up to uncompetitive levels.
    实行浮动汇率制的货币被迫升至不具竞争力的水平。
22. Some organisations have questioned whether the UK workforce really is as uncompetitive as all that.
    一些组织质疑英国的劳动力是否的确如此不具竞争力。
23. Previous changes in the visa regime angered university vice-chancellors, who claimed they made the UK uncompetitive in the international market for lucrative overseas students from outside the European Union, who pay higher tuition fees than domestic students.
    此前的签证制度变化激怒了英国的大学主管校长们。他们声称，这些新制度使英国在利润丰厚的接收欧盟（EU）以外留学生市场上丧失了竞争力。这些学生支付的学费高于国内学生。
24. This would reduce the risk of calls on the public purse to support uncompetitive plants.
    这会减少向公众要钱去支撑没有竞争力的工厂的风险。
25. One traditional fix is tariffs and subsidies, which can offset an uncompetitive exchange rate.
    传统的修正做法是采取关税和补贴措施，以抵消汇率竞争力低下。
26. But that would not be a solution if it merely lead to indefinite financing of fundamentally uncompetitive economies.
    但如果只是为根本上缺乏竞争力的经济体提供无限量融资，那这就称不上是什么解决办法。
27. A slightly more sophisticated version of this argument holds that the German economy would suffer hugely if the euro broke up, because many German banks would go bankrupt or its currency would soar in value, making German exports uncompetitive.
    这种论点有一个更加老道的说法，它坚称如果欧元崩溃，德国经济将损失惨重，因为德国许多银行会破产，或它的新货币币值会大幅飙升，致使德国出口丧失竞争力。
28. As Japan moved into higher-value exports, rising productivity pushed up wages, making old industries, such as textiles, uncompetitive.
    当日本进入高价值出口模式时，提高的生产力也提升了工资，使得传统的工业比如纺织业失去了竞争力。
29. Chinese wages can rise without becoming uncompetitive so long as Chinese productivity keeps pace with wages.
    只要中国的生产率能与工资水平保持同步，中国就可以在提高工资水平的同时，不损失竞争力。

adj

1. not inclined to compete