Since the Depression, a constant theme of business humor has been the fear of falling into the lower depths of ruin, the fine line between the penthouse and selling apples on the street.

自三十年代的大萧条以来，有关生意场的幽默题材一直是：人们担心自己会跌入毁灭的深渊，住在公寓顶层的破屋子里，每天走到大街上卖苹果。

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There must be something different between the two apples.

这两个苹果一定有不同之处。

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What are the similarities and differences between apples and oranges?

苹果和桔子有什么相同？有什么不同？

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It is a fallacy to say there is an apples-to-apples comparison between the ISM manufacturing survey and the ISM business services survey.

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The whole piece is excellent, pointing out the apples-to-oranges comparison between public schools and charters, noting that charters routinely push out students that underperform.

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First, that there is a sharp line between good and bad apples, and that a manager's job is to toss out the bad.

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