A specific style provides improvement in one or more quality attributes of the application — usually at the expense of other attributes.

特定的风格提供对应用程序的一个或多个质量属性的改进——通常以牺牲其他属性为代价。

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Eli never approved of an improvement that was achieved at the expense of the workers.

Eli从来没有批准过任何需要牺牲员工利益来实施的改进计划。

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But part of this improvement has come at the expense of other euro members with which it is now locked into the single currency.

但这些成绩部分是建立在损害其他欧元国利益之上，这些国家正受困于单一货币。

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But Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said any improvement in ties would not come at the expense of relations with Gulf Arab nations - Iran's regional rivals.

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Burying the lines might be (or might not be) prohibitively expensive, but it would be a vast aesthetic improvement and save all of us this repeated expense and risk.

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The year-over-year improvement was led by higher sales, lower associate incentive expense and a lower effective tax rate.

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