And again, another way of expressing the same thing is to say, " If only I hadn't paid the contractor in advance, we could've found another contractor." " If only I hadn't agreed to their proposal, I could have considered your offer." Okay?

继续，用另一种表达相同意思的方式，可以说成，“如果我那时没给承包商付预付款，我们就能找其他的承包商了。”“如果我当时不同意他们的提议，我就会考虑你的提议了”，明白了吗？

And they want to give us an advance.

而且他们还打算先付一笔预付款。

A bigger one if The Chelsea Set sells well.

另一笔预付款会拿到而且会更多，如果《切尔西的名流》畅销的话。”

It's like a publisher's advance to an author.

这就像出版商给作家的预付款。

What we support is you paying up-front.

我们支持的是你的预付款。

The company has already taken deposits on the car from half a million apparently eager buyers, and Musk announced in August that Tesla is poised to turn a profit for the first time in the next six months.

特斯拉已经从50万急切的买家那里拿到了预付款。今年8月，马斯克宣布，特斯拉有望在未来6个月内首次实现盈利。

" The European Union wants the ordered and pre-financed doses to be delivered as soon as possible, and we want our contract to be fully fulfilled."

“欧盟希望该公司尽快交付已订购和预付款的剂量，我们希望我们的合同能够完全履行。”

In others it is advance payments from oil traders, liabilities from public-private partnerships or hidden loans from commercial banks.

在其他地方，是来自于石油交易商的预付款、来自公私伙伴的债务或是来自商业银行的隐性贷款。

They want to offer us a, an advance of fifteen hundred dollars.

他们打算给我们一千五百美元的预付款。

" I wish I hadn't paid the contractor already." Or, " I wish I hadn't paid the contractor in advance." Okay?

“我不该给承包商付钱的。”或者“我不该给承包商付预付款的”，明白了么？

The one who pays the biggest advance is the one who expects the biggest sales, that's all.

付最多预付款的出版商是认为书能卖得最火的那个，仅此而已。

Are you allowed to share what the advance was for the book?

你可以透露这本书的预付款是多少吗？

So they get the convenience of ordering and prepaying through the app.

所以他们可以通过应用程序享受下单和预付款的便利。

It continues to sell, and I have not made any money past the advance.

它还在继续销售，但我还没有从销售额中赚到任何钱，只是提前收到了一笔预付款。

Generally, the advances for theater are much less than for movies.

通常，戏剧的预付款远低于电影。

If you're making six figures, you may need a 10 grand advance.

如果你赚的是六位数，你可能需要一笔十万元的预付款。

Charlie misinterpreted Terry's charity as an advance on a future record contract.

查理误解了泰瑞的慈善之举，以为这是未来唱片合约的预付款。

I think he got an advance from Old Boss with which to buy her off.

我想他从老老板那里得到了一笔预付款，用来收买她。

And so our understanding is that at the advice of the FBI, they authorized the FBI to send a small transaction, a kind of a down payment on that to that Bitcoin address and then trace it.

因此我们了解到，根据联邦调查局的建议，他们授权联邦调查局向该比特币地址发送一笔小额交易，相当于一种预付款，以便追踪资金流向。

If, within the course of such short periods, the sum of the repayments from certain customers is, upon most occasions, fully equal to that of the advances, it may safely continue to deal with such customers.

如果在如此短的时间内，某些客户的还款总额在大多数情况下完全等于预付款，它可以安全地继续与这些客户打交道。