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Learning and growing up in such an environment, one may regard dreaming as an unproductive act.

在这样的环境中学习和成长，人们会把做梦当作一种徒劳无益的行为。

Hanging out with your friends might seem "unproductive" whereas staying an extra couple of hours at work is "productive" .

跟朋友一起出去逛逛看起来是“毫无收益的”，与此同时加班完成工作是“有效能的”。

Making the best use of your time today is crucial, for you won't be satisfied if you're unproductive while hanging out with your friends.

好好地利用时间对于今天来说是至关重要的。没有和朋友联系就没有收益，你将不会对此感到满意。

Back then, social networking was more often viewed as a time-wasting and unproductive activity.

那时，多数人认为社会化网络浪费了时间，降低了效率。

My lazy tendencies stirred long enough to convince me of the virtue in the last option. . . But I wasn't completely unproductive.

我懒惰的秉性引起足够长的时间去证明我最近的选择所体现的优点。。。但是，我不是完全没有成效。

Readers: We'd love to hear about your own techniques for saving an unproductive day. What works for you? Join the discussion below.

读者们，我们希望听到你对工作效率低下的补救技巧。你有什么管用的技巧呢？请加入下面的讨论。

This was the other end of the spectrum -- a process that consumed most of our time with unproductive, useless activities.

这就是另外一个极端――一个除了消耗我们绝大多数时间而没有任何产物和可利用的行为过程。

Sit, looking at the top of the left job, I don't unproductive, top of the pen to continue flying in the wind.

坐在写字台前，看着高高的一摞作业，本人丝毫不敢懈怠，笔尖继续飞舞起来。

They also dropped demands for a hard cap on individual team payrolls and the right to wriggle out of contracts with unproductive players.

他们也已经放弃了一些要求：包括对于每支球队实施硬性薪资封顶，以及有权利解除表现不好的球员的合同。

Maybe the question tips off a tirade from her about how worthless and unproductive her staff members are.

也许这个问题会打开她的话匣子，数落起自己的属下是如何的不是，如何地缺乏生产力来。

I was afraid that if I were received everywhere in this fashion my trip might be unproductive.

我担心，如果各处都这样对待我，此行就不会有收获了。

But it seemed to me a pointless and unproductive kind of discussion.

可在我看来，这种讨论徒劳无益。

Ever have one of those unproductive days when you just feel lazy, and don't want to work on anything on your to-do list?

你有那些颓废时光吗？感觉很懒惰，不想做议程上的任何事。

One of your colleagues is overworked, stressed, seemingly unproductive, and making your team look bad.

你有一个同事，她总是工作过度、充满压力，还特别没有效率，搞得你们团队看上去很糟。

Create space in your work-life so that you can tolerate the seemingly unproductive nature of this phase.

在你的工作与生活中留出空闲时间，以便承受这个阶段看似没有收益性质的阶段。

As a journalist, Tintin is spectacularly unproductive, even by the idle standards of his trade.

作为一名记者，即使以该行业最闲散的标准来衡量，丁丁都相当地不称职。

Mondays also tend to be fairly unproductive, with only about three and a half hours of actual work getting done.

每周星期一的工作效率同样相当之低下，用以完成实际工作的时间大概仅有三个半小时。

Irresponsible is not to say unproductive, it's just to say that if other people are relying on you, you should think twice.

不负责不是说没有工作效率，只是说如果其他人很依赖你，你就该再好好想想。

Almost entirely reliant on oil receipts, unproductive and monopolistic, Iran's economy is not as strong as it should be.

伊朗经济几乎完全依赖于石油，生产力低下，垄断严重，远未实现潜能。

After sitting through endless unproductive meetings, she had grown weary of the vision-killing myopia of self-focused celebrities.

在作过许多次毫无果效的访谈后，她对那些自我陶醉的名人那种肤浅而自我的短视目光，极度厌倦。