Arguably, as well, it is actually a drag on earnings growth as long as cash sits on the balance sheet unproductively earning low rates of return. 相反,我们甚至可以认为,只要现金没有用于生产性支出,而是闲置在资产负债表上,仅仅赚取微薄的回报率,它其实是在拖累公司收益的增长。
The rise of flexible working has left some companies with unproductively configured space: perhaps too many old-fashioned rows of desks and not enough lounge areas and quiet zones to cater for homeworkers popping in. 弹性工作制的兴起使一些公司的空间配置失去了用武之地:要吸引在家工作的人,公司有太多一排排的老式桌椅,休息区和安静区也不够。
Social notworking refers to the practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working. (暂译为“社交不工作”)指在工作时间上社交网站闲逛的行为。
Therefore, we shall compete against time and do not let it slip by unproductively. 因此,必须与时日竞争,切莫使时日空过。
There are numerous products which may be said not to admit of being consumed otherwise than unproductively. 有很多产品,可以说除作非生产性消费外别无他用。
Nevertheless, society has been richer by the labour while the coat lasted, that is, until society, through one of its unproductive members, chose to consume the produce of the labour unproductively. 不过,在上衣未被穿坏以前,社会财富却因这个裁缝的劳动而有所增加,也就是说,在该劳动产品被某一非生产性社会成员拿去消费以前财富有所增加。
All the members of the community are not labourers, hut all are consumers, and consume either unproductively or productively. 虽然并非所有社会成员都是生产者,但所有社会成员却都是消费者,而消费或是非生产性的或是生产性的。
Business people, for instance, should not leave money sitting unproductively in banks. 商界人士,例如,不应把钱坐在非生产性银行。