to advantage

We must turn these machines to advantage.

我们必须充分发挥这些机器的作用。

The jeweler’s display showed the diamonds to advantage.

珠宝商的展示使那些钻石更为醒目。

Called suboptimization, this is a trade-off that increases the advantages to one unit or function but decreases the advantages to another unit or function.

这就是所谓的局部优化：增加对单位或部门的便利同时减少对另个单位或部门的便利，这是在两利不能兼顾的情况下所做的取舍。