Are schools getting enough bang for their technology buck?_其他

Are schools getting enough bang for their technology buck?

Actually, we have an expression in Chinese which more or less matches the American “bang for the buck”. Whenever we feel our money spent on something is wasteful, we lament that the money goes without making a sound.

The full lament actually is this: Had I thrown the coin in water, at least I’d hear a plop in return.

Without hearing the plop, the sound of a frog plunging into a pond, we mean to say the money we spent has gone to total waste.

Similarly with the American expression, people prefer a bigger bang for their buck.

The bigger, the better, as a matter of fact.

Alright, here are media examples, all fairly recent:

1. Emma Stone is clearly worth every penny Hollywood studios spend for her pretty face to grace their movies as the up and coming star has topped a list by Forbes magazine of actors who give the most bang for buck, beating the likes of Mila Kunis and Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence.

The 25-year-old has been named the most valuable actor in the world thanks to her main role in The Amazing Spider-Man franchise and other box office hits in recent years with Forbes calculating that for every $1 the studios paid for Emma for her last three movies, such as Gangster Squad and The Help – cartoons and voice overs are included, they earned back a whopping $80.70.