1. Tokyo Roof is one of hundreds of amusement parks, sports centers, and resorts opening all over Japan as this hard-working nation brings its characteristic efficiency and intensity to the newly serious business of play. 几百家游乐园、体育中心、度假地在日本各地相继开张,"东京屋顶"就是其中之一。日本这个勤劳的民族近来把游乐作为一件认真的事来做,体现了其典型的高效和激情。
2. A diploma is no guarantee of efficiency. 持有文凭不能保证工作效率一定高。
3. Aunt Harriet could not find words to praise Bessie´s industriousness and efficiency. 哈丽特不知该用什么言辞来赞扬贝西的勤奋与高效。
4. A few months later, a couple of almost comic body-thieves stole his body from the family burial chamber and held it for money: the police recovered it with more efficiency than Mack Sennett's clumsy Keystone Cops would have done. 几个月后,几个近乎可笑的盗尸者从他的家庭墓室盗走了他的尸体以借此诈钱。警方追回了他的尸体,其效率比麦克·塞纳特拍摄的启斯东喜剧片中的笨拙警察要高得多。