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10 Language-to-English Dictionaries效力
Pronunciation / Transliteration: xiào lì
"他缺乏完成这项工作的效力。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Vigor, energy, effectiveness, or substance.
"He lacks the feck to get the job done properly."
- 1
To steal or pilfer (chiefly Scottish and Irish dialect).
"Someone went ahead and fecked my bicycle from the porch."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Originating in Middle English as an aphetic shortening of the Scots and Northern English word 'effect', meaning value, vigor, or efficacy. Over centuries, it evolved primarily in regional dialects to denote efficiency, energy, or substance, and is famously preserved in compound forms like feckless.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Feck" is said worldwide
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efficacité
Transliteration: /e.fi.ka.si.te/
"Il manque d'efficacité dans son travail."
Tatkraft
Transliteration: /ˈtaːtˌkʁaft/
"Es fehlt ihm an der nötigen Tatkraft."
efficacia
Transliteration: /effiˈkatʃa/
"Manca di efficacia nei suoi progetti."
eficacia
Transliteration: /efiˈkaθja/
"Le falta eficacia para resolver este problema."
eficácia
Transliteration: /eziˈka.si.ɐ/
"Falta-lhe eficácia para concluir a tarefa."
प्रभावकारिता
Transliteration: prabhavkarita
"उसमें काम करने की प्रभावकारिता की कमी है।"
效力
Transliteration: xiào lì
"他缺乏完成这项工作的效力。"
효력
Transliteration: hyoryeok
"그는 일을 끝낼 효력이 부족하다."
効力
Transliteration: kōryoku
"彼には仕事をやり遂げる効力が欠けている。"
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