服务业是第三产业的一种，所以服务业是第三产业，而第三产业不仅仅此服务业。
Although the service sector has grown since the late 1970's, its productivity growth has declined.尽管服务业自20世纪70年代末以来一直在增长，但其生产率增长却在下降。
There is, however, no dearth of technological resources, rather, managers in the service sector fail to take advantage of widely available skills and machines.然而，技术资源并不缺乏，相反，服务部门的管理人员未能利用广泛可用的技能和机器。
There were even claims that IT had improved the performance of the service sector significantly, although macroeconomic measures of productivity did not reflect the improvement.甚至有人声称，它大大改善了服务部门的业绩，尽管生产率的宏观经济措施没有反映出这种改善。
