A practical example: End of quarter in a public company wreaks havoc on all departments not just sales.
一个实际例子：每到季度末，上市公司所有部门，不仅仅是销售都要忙做一团。
They pretended to exit their options-trading strategy and shift into Treasuries before the end of each quarter.
他们在每季度结束前假装停止他们的期权交易策略，而转向财政部门。
Instead of saying something like, "If we set an end-of-quarter deadline, we will never make it," say, "This is just my opinion, but I don't see how we will make that deadline."
与其说“如果我们设定了季度末的最后限期，我们将永远无法完成”这样的话，不如说：“仅代表个人看法，但我不知道我们怎样才能在截止日期前完成。”
That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.
同一项研究还发现，俄亥俄州立大学随机分配的跨种族室友在学期结束前摊牌的概率是同种族室友的两倍。
Every year, if people used just a quarter of that wasted food, the world hunger would end.
每年，如果人们只使用四分之一的被浪费的食物，世界饥饿问题就会结束。
I should manage to square accounts with the bank before the end of the quarter.
我应在本季度末前到银行结账。
In other words, the tech spending recession will end in the third quarter of 2009.
换句话说，技术开支的衰退将在2009年第三季度结束。
At the end of the third quarter, 171 undisclosed institutions were on that list.
在第三季度末，有171家未披露的机构在这个名单上。
Apple had 323 stores worldwide at the end of the first quarter, with 87 of them outside the United States.
截至第一季度末，苹果在全球拥有323家专卖店，其中87家位于美国本土之外的地方。
First, the group will devise an economic stimulus plan by the end of the first quarter.
首先，委员会要在第一季度末设计一项经济刺激计划。
The China Banking Regulatory Commission instructed Banks to move at least 25% of loans issued through trust companies back onto their balance sheets at the end of each quarter.
银监会要求商业银行每季度至少25%的、通过信托公司发放的贷款转入银行的资产负债表内核算。
Others will be on the market by the end of the first quarter, hesaid.
其它的产品在一季度末尾将面试，他表示。
Latvia, with a wrecked economy propped up by emergency IMF funding, saw an annual decline in house prices of nearly 60% to the end of the first quarter.
拉脱维亚的经济濒临绝境，靠IMF紧急救援资金支撑，在第一季度末时，它的房市年下跌率几近60%。
Essentially, you can start and stop requests all day long and you are only billed for your usage, billed at the end of the quarter.
实际上，客户随时可以开始和停止请求，只需在每季度末根据使用量付费。
Interest on passbook savings accounts, for example, was typically calculated on the minimum balance during the calendar quarter and was posted at the end of the quarter.
比如，银行储蓄账户通常会计算整个季度的最低存款额度，到季度末才会付息。
The Spurs held a nine point lead at the end of the first quarter, but the Suns were able to draw even by halftime.
第一节结束时，马刺领先太阳9分，但在上半场结束时太阳追平了比分。
This technique helped the firm flatter its numbers by temporarily moving assets off its balance-sheet at the end of each quarter.
通过回购105，雷曼在每个季末都暂时将一些流动性差的资产从资产负债表中移出。
For example, in April 2009, the Bank of Canada committed to maintain a low policy rate until a specific time, namely, the end of the second quarter of 2010, conditional on the inflation outlook.4.
例如，在2009年4月，加拿大央行做出有条件的承诺，即根据通货膨胀展望，维持低利率到一个具体的时点，即2010年二季度末。
Britain's budget plans were announced towards the end of the quarter, on June 22nd. Germany's were set out two weeks earlier.
英国财政计划于季度末6月22日公布，德国的更早两个星期出炉。
As of the end of the second quarter, the company has purchased a total of 17.4million shares for about $1.3 billion under that program.
截至第二季度结束，耐克已经回购了1740万股股票，所用资金大约在13亿美元左右。
In 2007 the ministry’s liabilities-to-assets ratio was 47%. At the end of the first quarter of 2011, it was 58%.
在2007年铁道部的负债-资产比率是47%，而2001年第一季度这一数据高达58%。
At the end of the first quarter of 2009, there were 480 million subscribers to the CDMA family of technologies worldwide.
截至2009年一季度，全球C网技术家族用户数已达到4.8亿。
Under this scheme, towards the end of each quarter Lehman temporarily swapped some of its assets for cash with another bank or investor, but booked this as if it were a permanent sale of the assets.
在这一花招下，每到季度末，雷曼就和一家银行或投资者合谋，暂时将它的部分资产替换成现金，但是账上却记录为永久性地出售这部分资产。
Under this scheme, towards the end of each quarter Lehman temporarily swapped some of its assets for cash with another bank or investor, but booked this as if it were a permanent sale of the assets.
在这一花招下，每到季度末，雷曼就和一家银行或投资者合谋，暂时将它的部分资产替换成现金，但是账上却记录为永久性地出售这部分资产。
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