I also do a couple of ad-hoc jobs which are much shorter projects.

我也做一些临时工作，这些项目的耗时较短。

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I also do a couple of ad hoc jobs which are much shorter projects.

我也做一些临时的工作，这些工作的时间要短得多。

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These support more simple test idioms, and can replace the ad-hoc code that projects have traditionally had to write and maintain for running their tests.

这些框架支持更简单的测试方法，让项目不再需要为运行测试编写和维护专门的代码。

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Advertising too is likely to start relying more and more on freelance talent to be assembled for creative projects ad-hoc.

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While Jackson and his successors framed economic policy as a matter of limited-government principle, Howe argues that the practical difference was that the Whigs sought to create a coherent national transportation system, while Jackson preferred to dole out projects on an ad-hoc basis to individual states.

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Meanwhile, three-year-old Code For America, a nonprofit that recruits experienced coders nationally for projects like building databases for local governments, has expanded its annual fellowship program from three to nine projects and last year launched a broad "brigade" of volunteer techies to work on ad hoc civic programs.

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