During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
在经济大萧条和战争时期，美国人学会了用更少的东西生活，而这种克制与战后对未来的信心相结合，使得小型而高效的住房变得非常时尚。
Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.
经济状况只是推动高效生活方式趋势的一个刺激因素。
Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
密斯高雅的展示方式掩盖了一个事实，即他设计的空间是小巧而高效的，而不是宏大而常常空荡的。
In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses – usually around 1,200 square feet – than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
20世纪30年代，弗兰克·洛伊·莱特开始建造更为谦逊和高效的住宅——通常约为1200平方英尺——这比他在19世纪90年代和20世纪初设计的那些宽敞的两层住宅要小得多。
Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work 6 the disappearance of the paper system.
尽管电子支付方式可能比基于纸质的支付系统更高效，但有几个因素阻碍6纸质系统的消失。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。