This would boost urban consumption and encourage the migration of unproductive rural labour into the cities.

The spring in Jericho was bad and that causes death and made the land unproductive!

这里记载,耶利哥的泉水有害,叫人死,又叫田地不生长.

Labour has accordingly been distinguished into Productive and Unproductive.

劳动因此而被分成生产性的和非生产性的.

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.

Going too far in either extreme may be unproductive and inefficient in many situations.

往任何一端走得太远都可能降低收益和效率.

Failure can be productive only if we do not focus on it as an unproductive result.

只有当我们不认为它是一个没有收益的成果时,失败才会变得有价值.

The letter was not unproductive.

信没有白写.

SOD . Without clear objectives, chances are that a meeting will be unproductive.

没有明确目标的会议多半是徒劳无功.

Land was made available ― but it was land that had been unproductive before.

人们可以得到土地──但它是原先的不毛之地.

Whoever contributes nothing directly or indirectly to production, is an unproductive consumer.

谁对生产既没有直接贡献也没有间接贡献, 谁就是非生产性消费者.

The way we continue on with the same unproductive and destructive patterns, habits and behaviours.

我们如何继续用徒劳的、消极的方式 、 习惯和行为处事.

A tract of unproductive land, often a scrubby growth of trees. Often used in the plural.

贫瘠地,不毛之地:一块贫瘠的土地, 通常树木低矮. 常用复数.

To prospect for ( oil, for example ) in an area supposed to be unproductive.

盲目开掘在认为资源不足的地区盲目找 ( 如油 )

I've had a very unproductive day.

我这一天什么事都没干成。

There is unproductive consumption by productive consumers.

生产性消费者也有非生产性的消费.

Owing to the rise of the temperature, the land becomes barren and unproductive.

由于气温升高, 土地变得贫瘠而减产.

an unproductive meeting

事倍功半的会议

...increasingly unproductive land.

越来越贫瘠的土地

She found that she spent the following day once again feeling unproductive and adrift.

她发觉自己在第二天又感到了没有生产力,漫无目的.

Little of your efforts are ever wasted on unproductive activities or trivial matters.

你不会浪费丝毫力气在无用的活动或是芝麻绿豆的小事上.

Why was the presentation so unprofessional?

(为什么这个发言这么没有专业水准? )