Let them call their firstquarters profitable as long as losses are not counted, so that investors can hope, at least for a while, that these fictions will come true.
那就把第一季度叫做盈利季度只要不算上损失就行暂时让投资者期盼着虚幻会变为现实。
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But Baidu is facing a challenge from reduced advertising spending in the slowing economy and posted quarter-to-quarter revenue declines in the fourth and and firstquarters.
Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr. Williams worked at a managerial level, while only 38.5 percent of the second group thought so.