This is because most managers prefer to trim their ad budgets rather than their payrolls, and restore such spending only once they feel sure that things are looking up.

这是因为经济不景气时，绝大多数企业主都宁愿削减广告开支而不愿意减薪，一旦感觉到经济形势有所回升他们就立刻又重新投入这些广告费用。

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The rescue is opaque-yet another AD hoc bail-out rather than part of a systematic plan; and it is too kind to the bank's management, board and shareholders.

对花旗的援助并不透明，与其说是系统救市计划的一部分，更像是一项特别救助；而且对花旗的管理层、董事会和股东太过善待了。

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The basic premise is that database developers should be able to work like software developers with changes being tested locally and applied via change-sets rather than ad-hock scripts.

基本前提是数据库开发人员能够像软件开发人员那样工作，做出的改变能在本地进行测试，基于更改集而不是特定的脚本来提交更改。

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We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

在宗教研究中我们喜欢用这两个术语，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因为AD其实是Anno，Domini的缩写，即“主的年份“

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So in simply the interests of reflecting the plurality of our own departments, CE we tend to use these terms, rather than BC and AD.

所以为了表现宗教多样性，我们不用BC和AD，而用BCE和。

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