预付与预留的基础架构资源。
类似地，托马斯•谢林说过他很乐意为一个没有电视的客房预付高价钱。
Similarly, Thomas Schelling once said that he would be willing to pay extra in advance for a hotel room without a television in it.
船舶发生灭失或者失踪的，租金应当自船舶灭失或者得知其最后消息之日起停止支付，预付租金应当按照比例退还。
Should the ship be lost or missing, payment of hire shall cease from the day when the ship was lost or last heard of. Any hire paid in advance shall be refunded in proportion.
考虑预付费的银行借记卡。
一个月后，我收到一份合同，一笔预付版税，以及另一本书的约稿。
A month later I received a contract, an advance on royalties, and a request to start working on another book.
我方要求在45天内付清所有货款，如果预付现金则享有15%的折扣。
We require full payment within 45 days with a 15% discount for cash payment in advance.
没有银行账户的消费者，也可以通过把信用额度转到预付卡中以便购物。
For people without bank accounts, the credit can be converted into pre-paid cards which can then be used to buy things.
给个小建议——你买预付费手机的时候，别刷信用卡。
A little advice — When you buy a prepaid phone, don't use your credit card.
与此同时，我觉得使用预付费的SIM卡来上网该是可行的，尽管其设计初衷是用于手机通话。
In the meantime I feel it should be possible to use prepaid SIM CARDS — designed primarily for voice as connections — for data.
消费者们也许会使用廉价的预付费式移动电话来进行语音通话，而同时使用类似于iPod touch的设备通过有线网络来上网查询资料。
Or consumers might pick up a cheap prepaid mobile phone for voice and carry around an iPod touch-like device on the cable network for Web inquiries.
目前这项服务只支持某些类型的“Citi”万事达信用卡和谷歌预付费卡，手机则仅限于斯普林特(Sprint)的Nexus s4g手机。
Right now the service only works with certain Citi MasterCards and the Google Prepaid Card and on the Sprint Nexus s 4g phone.
邮票，是指由国家(或地区)邮政主管部门发行的预付邮资凭证。
Stamp is a prepaid postage certificate issued by the postal administration of a country (region).
这也是顾客不愿意对某项服务或产品做出预付或是签订长期合约的原因。
This is why customers are reluctant to buy when someone asks them to prepay for a service or product or sign a long-term contract.
与此同时，在非洲大部分地区，只有小部分人拥有银行帐户。但是对便宜简便的汇款方式和购买预付费的服务(比如通话时间)的需求非常强劲。
In most of Africa, meanwhile, only a fraction of people have bank accounts-but there is huge demand for cheap and convenient ways to send money and buy prepaid services such as airtime.
此外，威廉姆斯为苹果做了大量幕后工作，例如与海力士（Hynix）等供应商签订协议，预付约12.5亿美元的订金购买闪速存储器。此举对Nano音乐播放器的推出大有帮助。
Williams has done a lot for Apple, all of it behind the scenes, such as his work on a deal to prepay suppliers like Hynix some $1.25 billion for flash memory, a move that helped Apple launch the Nano.
把当前年度的费用延迟到下一年支付，在下一年预付它们，这样可以把相关的费用集中到一年内。
It may be advantageous to delay payments in one year and prepay them in the next year to bunch the expenses in one year.
MiFi的便携性注定了它是特别灵活又特别实用的小玩意——而维珍的预付费模式、无限制的数据方案和非常便宜的定价更是使其灵活性倍增。
The MiFi’s portability has always made it an exceptionally flexible and useful little gadget — and Virgin’s prepaid model, unlimited data plan and dirt-cheap pricing just multiply that flexibility.
预付费系统节省了运营商发送账单以及追索债务的费用。
Prepaid billing saves operators sending out bills and chasing up debts.
一个月后，我收到一份合同、一份预付款，以及另一本书的约稿。
A month later I received a contract, an advance on royalties, and a request to start working on another book.
雇佣新人的最佳时机就是你刚争取到某个预付项目款或分期付款的大项目的时候。
The best time to hire someone new is right after you bag yourself a big project that pays in advance or in installments.
在交易宣告达成之前，有报道称雅虎希望微软预付几十亿美元的首付金，而微软则同意通过营收分享向雅虎提供报酬。
Before the deal was announced, it was reported that Yahoo had wanted an upfront payment of billions of dollars. Instead, Microsoft agreed to a revenue-sharing arrangement.
一旦完成向预付费方式的转变，手机的成本便成为更广泛移动业务接入的最大障碍——在上世纪90年代末手机的价格依然昂贵。
Once the switch to prepaid was made, the biggest barrier to broader mobile access became the cost of a handset, which was still an expensive item in the late 1990s.
运营一个预付借记卡业务PerfectCard的Evans女士发现，一些年轻的员工拥有着高人一等的优越感，所以很难激发起他们的工作积极性。
Ms Evans, who runs PerfectCard, a pre-paid debit-card business, saw some of her younger staff acquire a sense of entitlement which made them hard to motivate.
同样，预付实例能帮助云计算供应商估算容量，并最大地降低耗尽资源或过多占用未使用实例的风险。
Similarly, prepaid instances help the cloud computing provider estimate capacity and minimize the on-demand risk of running out of resources or sitting on too many unused instances.
由于一本书的预付金常常是分期支付的，目前还不清楚一旦这本书开始销售，预付金的总额会是多少。
It is unclear how much the advance will total once the book hits shelves, since book advances are often distributed in several parts.
由于一本书的预付金常常是分期支付的，目前还不清楚一旦这本书开始销售，预付金的总额会是多少。
It is unclear how much the advance will total once the book hits shelves, since book advances are often distributed in several parts.
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