Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.
更快的周转意味着更少的库存浪费、更频繁的产品发布以及更多的利润。
An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted - the trouble is, no one knows which half.
有一句老话说，所有广告预算的一半都是浪费的——问题是，没人知道到底是哪一半。
“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.
Gary Eberle在《Sacred Time》一书中写道：未来像空瓶子一样沿着一条无法停止且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来，我们感受到一种压力，必须在它们经过时填满这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟），因为如果它们未被填满而通过，我们就会浪费了它们。
And it should: Wasted time is a drag on Americans' economic and private lives, not to mention infuriating.
这确实应该如此：浪费的时间会拖累美国人的经济和私人生活，更不用说让人恼火了。
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。