高考Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

尤其是数字技术、电子邮件和智能手机大大提高了员工在传统办公室之外的工作效率。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

那么，以这些不同的方式思考时间会产生什么影响呢？一个能让我们更有效率吗？更好地完成手头的任务？更快乐的？在Tamar Avnet和Anne Laure Sellier进行的实验中，他们让参与者组织不同的活动，从项目规划、假日购物到按时间或待办事项列表进行瑜伽，以衡量他们在时钟时间和任务时间下的表现。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

与其让孩子们努力工作，不如让他们在有意义的、有成效的活动中获得乐趣，比如做事情、与他人合作、探索想法和解决问题？这些关注点与他们喜欢的事物没有太大区别。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

与其让孩子们努力工作，不如让他们在有意义的、有成效的活动中获得乐趣，比如做事情、与他人合作、探索想法和解决问题？

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考You'll get in more questions, the discussion will be tailored to what you need most help on, and two-party communication is almost always more productive than committee work.

你会遇到更多的问题，讨论会根据你最需要的帮助进行调整，而且两党沟通几乎总是比委员会工作更有成效。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

六级In a paper published recently, Kapur applied the principle of productive failure to mathematical problem solving in three schools.

在最近发表的一篇论文中，卡普尔将生产性失败原则应用于三所学校的数学问题解决。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

这意味着几乎没有钱用于投资，使城市更宜居，更具生产力。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考So, get an early start and try to be as productive as possible before lunch.

所以，早点开始，尽量在午餐前提高效率。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

考研Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

只有当人类开始以更高效的方式获取食物时，才有时间做其他事情。

2009年考研阅读原文

六级The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.

令人担忧的是，开放的倡导者并没有把时间花在尽可能提高效率上。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特校区的社会科学家和多样性官员库赫利·杜特（Kuheli Dutt）说：“你知道，这是我遇到的最好的学生。”把那些优秀的信和一封仅仅是好的信比较一下：“候选人很有效率，或者说是英特尔。”

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.

如果我们现在就给孩子们一个最好的开始，他们将在未来几十年更健康、更富有成效。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考No matter how boring it is now, education will help you be a productive member in society.

无论现在有多无聊，教育都会帮助你成为社会中富有成效的一员。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考The study showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not.

研究表明，那些在男孩时期工作过的人比那些没有工作过的人享受着更快乐、更富有成效的生活。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Recent studies show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks regularly.

最近的研究表明，如果我们经常短暂休息，我们的工作效率会大大提高。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

六级So we need to "design for productive failure" by building it into the learning process.

因此，我们需要通过将其纳入学习过程来“设计生产性失败”。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

将那些优秀的信与一封仅仅是好的信相比较：候选人是富有成效的，或者聪明的，或者是一位可靠的科学家，或者是一位明显可靠的赞誉，但没有任何东西能将候选人视为杰出的或独一无二的。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (不断积累) to the whole of society as today's children become tomorrow's productive citizenry (公民).

将育儿归类为没有集体责任的个人选择不仅仅是忽视良好育儿的社会效益；事实上，这是为了窃取这些好处，因为它们会累积(不断积累) 对整个社会来说，今天的孩子将成为明天富有成效的公民(公民).

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Esperanto also has a highly productive system of constructing new words from old ones.

世界语也有一个从旧单词中构造新单词的高效系统。

2010年6月听力原文

四级More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

多产的农民意味着有多余的粮食可以养活城市；反过来，这又为工厂创造了大量劳动力。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

任务计时员更快乐，更有创造力，但工作效率较低。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研They're more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks.

他们更有生产力，更有创造力，并且愿意承担更大的风险。

2016年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

研究发现，如果员工承受高压力，他们的积极性会降低，工作效率会降低，而且更可能辞职。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.

只要延长全职工作的第二阶段，就可能获得100年寿命所需的金融资产，但这种坚持不懈的工作将不可避免地耗尽宝贵的无形资产，如生产技能、活力、幸福和友谊。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级"The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible. "

“令人担忧的是，开放的倡导者没有把时间花在尽可能富有成效的事情上。”

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷二）

六级Turning on the same protective systems in people should, by 2056, create the first class of 100-year-olds who are as vigorous and productive as today’s people in their 60s” Conlin Pillinger ,professor of planerary sciences at the Open University,says:”I fancy that at least we will be able to show that life didi start to evolve on Mars well as Earth.

到2056年，在人们身上启用同样的保护系统，应该会创造出第一批100岁的人，他们和今天60多岁的人一样精力充沛，富有生产力。”

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级For the small business, there are additional benefits too—staff are more productive, and happier, enabling firms to keep their headcounts (员工数) and their recruitment costs to a minimum.

对于小企业来说，还有额外的好处——员工的工作效率更高，更快乐，使公司能够留住员工(员工数) 并将其招聘成本降至最低。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级“With Wi-Fi (fast, wireless internet connections) popping up all over the place, even on trains, our fee-earners can be productive as they travel, and between meetings, instead of having to kill time at the shops,” he adds.

他补充道：“随着Wi-Fi（快速无线互联网连接）在各地涌现，甚至在火车上，我们的收费者在旅行和会议间隙都可以提高效率，而不必在商店消磨时间。”。

2009年12月英语六级真题

四级Without them, the animals will not remain healthy and productive.

没有它们，动物将无法保持健康和多产。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The arrangement benefits both countries; Xu’s Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducing from a word-class scientist and his U. S. team.

这一安排对两国都有利；

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级and drawing is a more productive way of thinking" than computer-aided design.

绘图是一种比计算机辅助设计更有效率的思维方式”。

2014年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.

受过高等教育的人的工资大幅上涨，这些人在老年后继续获得丰厚的回报，因为如今受过教育的老年人比上一代人更有生产力。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套)

四级Does one make us more productive?

一个能让我们更有效率吗？

2015年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级But within two Mondays in the group, I was hooked, not only on knitting but also on crocheting(钩织)，and I was on my way to becoming a highly productive crafter.

但在小组的两个星期一内，我就迷上了，不仅迷上了编织，还迷上了钩针编织(钩织)，我正在成为一名高效的手工艺者。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级That means there’s little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

这意味着几乎没有资金用于使城市宜居和提高生产力的投资。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级“Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intelligent, or a solid scientist or something that’s clearly solid praise,’ but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

“将这些优秀的信件与一封仅仅好的信件进行比较：‘候选人富有成效，或聪明，或是一位可靠的科学家，或是一些明显值得赞扬的东西’，但没有任何东西能将候选人视为杰出或独一无二的。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级“If we give children the best possible start in life now, they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.

“如果我们现在给孩子们最好的人生开端，他们在未来几十年里会更健康、更有生产力。

2019年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级Those whose bore-dom pumps had been primed were more productive.

那些钻孔泵已经启动的人更有效率。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.

他们作为情感和智力独立、富有生产力的人，从未面对过人类生存的基本现实。

1993年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The important factor in a private enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources (private property) , and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit.

私营企业经济中的一个重要因素是，允许个人拥有生产资源（私人财产），允许他们雇佣劳动力，获得对自然资源的控制权，并生产商品和服务以营利。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.

在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包括生产资源的所有权，还包括某些权利，包括决定产品价格或与另一个人自由订立合同的权利。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Economists have been particularly surprised by favourable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America’s, have little productive slack.

经济学家对英国和美国有利的通胀数据感到特别惊讶，因为传统的衡量标准表明，这两个经济体，尤其是美国，几乎没有生产疲软。

1997年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Energetic people now routinely work through their 60s and beyond, and remain dazzlingly productive.

精力充沛的人们现在经常工作到60多岁甚至更久，并且保持着惊人的生产力。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题