It is inefficient and does not work that well.

不仅效率低，而且效果不太好。

With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient.

上与求职相关的址数以千计，寻找可能的职业空缺费时效率又低。

This begs the question, why is sex so common when it seems so inefficient?

这就引出了一个问题，为什么性生活看起来如此低效，却如此普遍？

Early car batteries were expensive and inefficient.

早期的汽车电池既昂贵又低效。

The way that we normally try to memorize stuff is inefficient and pretty bad.

我们一般记忆事情的方法低效且糟糕。

She was right that inefficient nationalized industries had to be privatized.

她主张没有效率的国有企业必须要被私有化是确的。

What does this mean? Well most people learning a second language sort of take the mother tongue words and the target words and go over them again and again in their mind to try and remember them. Really inefficient.

这是什么意思？大部分的人学习第二外语，就是拿母语的字、目标学习的字然后不断的重复，在心中一遍又一遍尝试把他们记住，非常没有效率。

So it's up to every passenger to decide where he wants to stop, very inefficient because travel will stop and start all the time.

乘客想在哪里下车都可以，但这样效率非常低为路上汽车一直走走停停。

When you do finally get out of bed, you'll feel lazy and inefficient.

当起床的时候，会感到懒惰和效率低下。

So multitasking makes us at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright dangerous.

所以一心多用在最好的情况下会让我们效率低下，而在最坏的情况下会让我们非常危险。

And when we're talking about that, a sugar burner is someone that consumes lots of carbohydrates and taps into glucose as their primary fuel source, which is incredibly inefficient.

当我们提到这个时，糖类消耗者指的是可以消耗许多碳水化合物，利用葡萄糖做为主要能量来源的人，这方式非常没有效率。

Current renewables, like solar panels and wind turbines, are limited by outdated battery technology and inefficient power storage.

已知的可再生能源 如太阳能电池板和风力发电机，受限过时且效率低下的电池科技和储能技术。

By that I mean we can't continue to use inefficient street lighting equipment which enables a lot of the light emitted to escape upwards into the sky.

我的意思是，我们不能继续使用低效的街灯设备，让很多光线逸入天空。

And that's partly because the so-called last mile is really inefficient.

这在一定程度上是为所谓的“最后一英里”确实效率低下。

Any economist will recognise this as an inefficient use of resources.

任何经济学家都会认识到，这是一种对资源的低效利用。

The carmaker was overspending, overmanned and inefficient, and had lost its reputation for quality.

公司不仅经费超资、人员冗杂、效率低下，还丢掉了产品质优的牌子。

But for more complicated tasks, like learning a language, Hebbian learning seems too inefficient.

但对更复杂的任务，比如学习语言，赫布学习似乎效率太低了。

Coarse grains such as corn, sorghum, barley, oats, rye, and millet, mostly go into animal feed which by the way is seen by many as a wasteful and inefficient use of fertile land.

粗粮，如玉米，高粱，大麦，燕麦，黑麦，谷子，大部分用动物饲料，顺便说一下，许多人认为这是对肥沃土地的浪费和低效利用。

But it's because it's a very low volume production and it's very inefficient.

但这是为它的产量很低，效率也非常低。

The island's economy is also dominated by a vast, inefficient near-Athenian public sector.

这个岛国的经济也是由大量低效的公共部门所主导。