utility
utility 英 [ju:ˈtɪləti] 美 [juˈtɪləti]
n. 实用；效用；公共设施；功用 adj. 实用的；通用的；有多种用途的
名词复数:utilities
- If you live in a place where the temperature never drops below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and someone gives you a snow-blower for your birthday, you might question the gift’s utility, meaning its “usefulness.”
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- n. 实用；效用；公共设施；功用
- adj. 实用的；通用的；有多种用途的
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1. This is the deeper meaning of marginal utility: that when society is free, even the most marginal among us need not be marginalized.
这正是边际效用的深层含义：如果这个社会是自由的，即使是我们中最边际的人也不应该被边缘化。
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2. Luckily, this utility library does most of the work for you.
幸运的是，此实用库能够为您做大部分工作。
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3. Yet happiness data do not enable us todirectly measure utility and wellbeing.
而幸福数据不会直接帮助我们衡量效用与健康。
- utility (n.) late 14c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (13c., Modern French + utilité), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti "make use of, profit by, take advantage of" (see use (v.)). Meaning "a useful thing" is from late 15c. As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.
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