Transient investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hinder a firm's efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty.

短期投资者要求从公司获得高额季度利润，这会阻碍公司投资长期研究或建立客户忠诚度。

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I prefer the term evaluation criteria, which are inherently understood as transient snapshots of objectives for a given intermediate life-cycle checkpoint such as a demonstrable release.

我倾向于使用评估标准这种说法，它被自然理解为目标的瞬间快照，而目标是一个生存周期的中间检查点，比如一个可演示的版本发布。

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It is tough to make long-term plans in Nevada; the population is fast-growing but transient, and the economy is hyper-sensitive to future changes in other states' gambling laws.

对于内华达而言做长期计划是艰难的；人口正在快速增长但是这只是短期的，而经济对未来其他州赌博法律的变化非常敏感。

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It concluded that speedups in melting rates are strictly short-term, transient phenomena, occurring primarily during summer months.

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Infinitely more important (and putting aside whatever short-term, transient economic benefits may ensue) is the fact that easy money policies guarantee economic busts, and the larger the monetary largesse fostered by such policies, the larger the bust.

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According to the Mayo Clinic website, the medical term for what is often called a mini-stroke is "transient ischemic attack, " and produces symptoms similar to a stroke but usually causes no permanent damage.

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