airtime

noun

1. （广播或电视节目的）播放时间
   the amount of time that is given to a particular subject on radio or television
2. （移动电话计费的）通话时间
   the amount of time that is paid for when you are using a mobile phone/cellphone

1. They devoted their entire airtime to covering the storm.
   他们一直在全程播报这场暴风雨。
2. Little did the executives know the delay would work in their favor: by early 2011, Skype was developing new ways to make money, including selling advertisers airtime during Skype video calls.
   当时这些高管们并未料到，延期进行IPO反而对Skype有利：到2011年初，Skype已经在发展新的赢利方式，例如把Skype视频通话接通前的呼叫时间当成广告位，卖给广告商们。
3. Anyone who monopolizes the airtime is assumed to be jockeying for a promotion.
   独霸发言时间，人们会觉得你处心积虑想往上爬。
4. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission found he bought a satellite phone and airtime for extremists in Algeria and Chechnya in 2000.
   特别移民上诉委员会于2000年发现他购买了一部卫星电话，服务于阿尔及利亚和车臣的极端分子间的通话。
5. Advertisers in some categories, such as the travel industry, are still reluctant to buy space or airtime, while others, such as the car and movie businesses, have been bolder.
   广告主仍然不愿意在有些栏目如旅游栏目中买断版面或播放时间，而对汽车和电影这样的栏目却从不犹豫。
6. In many places, mobile phone airtime balances have assumed the status of unofficial currency, after customers realised they could settle personal debts by transferring credit from one phone to another.
   在很多地区，手机话费余额承担起了非官方货币的角色，此前客户发现，他们可以通过将话费余额从一部手机转移到另一部手机来清偿个人债务。
7. However, even on the rare occasions when they are accurately portrayed, there are a number of ninja tools and weapons that never seem to get airtime.
   然而，即便有很少的机会能够真正描绘出忍者们的形象，仍有很多忍者使用的工具和武器似乎从未在电影或电视中展示过。
8. Tool-path airtime optimization during multi-contour processing in leather cutting is regarded as generalized traveling salesman problem. A hybrid intelligence algorithm was proposed.
   将皮革裁剪多轮廓加工空行程路径优化问题归结为广义旅行商问题，提出了一种求解问题的混合智能优化算法。
9. Chongqing Satellite TV has stopped commercial advertisements and will use the airtime to broadcast promotional films and public service announcements, Chongqing Evening News reported.
   据《重庆晚报》报道，重庆卫视已停播商业广告，将在原有广告时段播出城市形象宣传片和公益广告。
10. In fact, obtaining free airtime from local cable television stations is not as difficult as commonly perceived by most people.
    事实上，争取地方电视台免费播放节目并非如人们所想像的那样困难。
11. Airtime ( data transfer and connection) also incurs costs, although a certain amount of airtime might be included in the end user's contract with the carrier.
    网络连接时间（数据传输和连接）也会引发成本，尽管一定数量的网络连接时间可能包含在最终用户与运营商的合同中。
12. Rival parties and candidates were disqualified, they said, while Mr Putin received 70 per cent of airtime on state-controlled television.
    他们表示，竞争的政党和候选人被取消竞选资格，而在由国家控制的电视上，普京得到了70%的出镜时间。
13. Nearly all airtime in Africa is pre-paid.
    在非洲，移动电话通话费用都是预付的。
14. Based in San Francisco, Airtime has raised$ 33m in funding and employs about 30 people, including engineers who have worked at Facebook and online video site Hulu.
    Airtime总部设在旧金山，已募集3300万美元资金，并雇用了约30名员工，其中包括一些曾效力于Facebook和在线视频网站Hulu的工程师。
15. Clutter levels have declined by 27 per cent since 2004, a process that has also increased TV airtime costs.
    自2004年至今，广告泛滥程度已经减轻了27%，而这一举措也提高了电视节目的播放成本。
16. Subscribers there do not want to spend much on airtime, but are keen to buy a flashy phone.
    意大利人虽然并不想花太多时间在通话上，但他们在购买高档手机方面是非常热情的。
17. Including the advertisers, who are expected to spend up to20% less on airtime this year.
    包括那些今年将在电视广告上减少20%投资的广告商。
18. In other words, if the CTA for a VBR flow with large packet number of packets is not enough for transmission, it can occupy the free airtime which belongs to another VBR flow.
    即在某个超帧时间内，一个拥有较大流量的VBR业务在自己分配的CTA时间不够用的情况下，占用属于另一个VBR业务多余的CTA时间来进行传输。
19. From several aspects above, this airtime scientifically and systematically analyzed the cultivation of college students'awareness of sustainable development;
    第四部分论述了大学生可持续发展意识培养的对策与途径。