I don't think that intelligent businessmen would spend millions of dollars on advertising if nobody believed the advertisements, do you?

如果没有人相信这些广告，我想聪明的商人是不会花几百万元做广告的，你觉得呢？

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If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.

如果它是在打击几乎完全依赖广告业务的谷歌，那么它选择了一个不直接的方法：因为没人能保证默认 DNT 模式会成为常规。

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The business quickly repaid the initial outlay on advertising.

这家公司很快偿付了初期的广告费。

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The F.T.C.estimates that food,drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

One in 10 relied on advertising and one in five said that product reputation helped them determine whether a product is green.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

But a lot of that market has moved to free or low-cost advertising on the Internet, including sites like Craigslist.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

Millions spent on advertising and to consolidate production didn't bring new drinkers, just reshuffled the deck.

FORBES: Up From the Gutter

This may seem surprising, given that roughly half of Viacom's revenue is dependent on advertising.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It is true that most newspapers are struggling with the internet's impact on advertising.

ECONOMIST: A new venture for an old paper