Because you can only study so many hours in a day, longer hours yields diminishing returns.

因为你一天只能学习这么多小时，更长的时间会产生报酬递减。

Even small steps to restore a healthier balance between private and public good would yield handsome returns.

现在即使能在健康地平衡公私利益方面迈出一小步，都将获得相当可观的回报。

The formation freed-up considerable amounts of lettable floor area, particularly on the higher value upper levels, yielding greater returns for developers.

这种设计释放了大量的可出租建筑面积，特别是在价值较高的高层，为开发商带来了更大的回报。

The portfolio was yielding an average 1.79% return last week, far below the 10-year Treasury yield of around 3.9%, Reuters reported.

据路透社报道，上周该投资组合的平均收益率为1.79%，远低于10年期美国国债约3.9%的收益率。

These investments should yield a reasonable return.

【yield】这些投资项目应该会产生不错的收益。

But the Hermes clan can draw satisfaction from the fact that their investment in the family firm has yielded returns of over 400% since 2010

但是爱马仕家族还是心满意足，因为自2010年以来，他们对家族企业的投资回报率超过400%。

The chances that that incremental effort are going to really yield some return for them, they really shrink to zero because you have a lot of other good contenders out there.

这种渐进式的努力确实会给他们带来一些回报的机会，实际上会缩小到零，因为还有很多其他优秀的竞争者。

And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

可以有把握地说，自硬币首次成为权力的象征以来的所有时代中，我们的时代是它让大多数拥有者心满意足的最可怜的回报。