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单词 low-hanging fruit
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Definition of low-hanging fruit in English:

low-hanging fruit

noun
informal
  • The most easily achieved of a set of tasks, measures, goals, etc.

    it's more difficult to produce new drugs—all the low-hanging fruit has been picked
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These changes represent the low-hanging fruit of increased horsepower and add 25 horses to the 260 hp on the stock version.
    • Diminishing returns in the sciences seem inevitable because the low-hanging fruit was picked first.
    • However, now that the low-hanging fruit has been successfully plucked the task of domestic growth is going to be that much more difficult for the superstore operators.
    • But the driver has to be movies because it's the low-hanging fruit.
    • Their low-hanging fruit had long since been plucked.
    • These, however, look like a rather larger mountain to climb than picture phones, which you could call the low-hanging fruit of privacy invasion.
    • Exchange rates are a low-hanging fruit for them, even though they are a small fruit and - from the Chinese perspective - an unripe one.
    • It's been on a growth track, and now most of the low-hanging fruit has been plucked as it were - as they call it - and in that respect, they're not going to be able to satisfy large growth projections or large growth hopes.
    • The theme is that things like building new bridges and interchanges is great, but that these things take ten years and billions of dollars; it's worth looking at the low-hanging fruit, too.
    • ‘You get all the low-hanging fruit in the first year,’ Eggert says.
    • These days police officers seem to spend much of their time plucking the low-hanging fruit afforded by motorists or minor transgressors of petty government edicts.
    • But email is just the low-hanging fruit of the wireless data market.
    • And with the successful reforms of the last 20 years, we've picked the low-hanging fruit and we're going to have to do something pretty substantial to get out of this.
    • Each of these products might lead us to a low-hanging fruit.
    • Start with the low-hanging fruit - declining to cover routine briefings by government officials who refuse to be named.
    • ‘He is picking the low-hanging fruit,’ said one analyst.
    • So rather than just chase the big innovations all the time, we should also make sure we unleash the smaller quick hits, the low-hanging fruit.
    • With much of the low-hanging fruit gone, is it time to examine the cost/ value relationship along the entire wood supply/processing chain?
    • But the low-hanging fruit lies in automation applications.
    • But people have always mourned the loss of the low-hanging fruit - and then smart and innovative folks built taller ladders.
 
 

Definition of low-hanging fruit in US English:

low-hanging fruit

noun
informal
  • A thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little effort.

    we know mining our own customer base is low-hanging fruit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And with the successful reforms of the last 20 years, we've picked the low-hanging fruit and we're going to have to do something pretty substantial to get out of this.
    • These days police officers seem to spend much of their time plucking the low-hanging fruit afforded by motorists or minor transgressors of petty government edicts.
    • But the low-hanging fruit lies in automation applications.
    • Start with the low-hanging fruit - declining to cover routine briefings by government officials who refuse to be named.
    • However, now that the low-hanging fruit has been successfully plucked the task of domestic growth is going to be that much more difficult for the superstore operators.
    • ‘He is picking the low-hanging fruit,’ said one analyst.
    • With much of the low-hanging fruit gone, is it time to examine the cost/ value relationship along the entire wood supply/processing chain?
    • These changes represent the low-hanging fruit of increased horsepower and add 25 horses to the 260 hp on the stock version.
    • The theme is that things like building new bridges and interchanges is great, but that these things take ten years and billions of dollars; it's worth looking at the low-hanging fruit, too.
    • It's been on a growth track, and now most of the low-hanging fruit has been plucked as it were - as they call it - and in that respect, they're not going to be able to satisfy large growth projections or large growth hopes.
    • So rather than just chase the big innovations all the time, we should also make sure we unleash the smaller quick hits, the low-hanging fruit.
    • But the driver has to be movies because it's the low-hanging fruit.
    • These, however, look like a rather larger mountain to climb than picture phones, which you could call the low-hanging fruit of privacy invasion.
    • Exchange rates are a low-hanging fruit for them, even though they are a small fruit and - from the Chinese perspective - an unripe one.
    • But email is just the low-hanging fruit of the wireless data market.
    • But people have always mourned the loss of the low-hanging fruit - and then smart and innovative folks built taller ladders.
    • Their low-hanging fruit had long since been plucked.
    • Each of these products might lead us to a low-hanging fruit.
    • ‘You get all the low-hanging fruit in the first year,’ Eggert says.
    • Diminishing returns in the sciences seem inevitable because the low-hanging fruit was picked first.
 
 
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