Afraid of bad publicity, the department had suddenly become very twitchy about journalists.

该部门害怕有媒体的负面宣传，在面对记者时突然变得焦躁不安。

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Because company executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their computer had been misused.

因为公司高管们担心，如果公众发现他们的电脑被滥用，会造成负面的宣传。

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Company executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their computer had been misused.

公司高管们担心，如果公众发现他们的电脑遭到了滥用，会造成负面影响。

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The company can organize online publicity campaigns to try to limit the harm done by negative comments or bad news.

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For example, Frito-Lay, before they really had to because of bad publicity, took out all of the Trans fats in their products and that was -they're the largest snack manufacturer in the world so that was a pretty significant advance for the healthiness of their foods.

例如,菲多利,为免受到舆论谴责,他们在政策发布前,就已剔除了其所有产品中的反式脂肪,他们是世界上最大的零食生产厂商,这对他们产品的健康程度也是一大提升

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And they say, by the way Alex, that they weren't affected by the bad publicity.

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And so I think, in effect, you know--there's a saying that no publicity is bad publicity.

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All the same, an avalanche of bad publicity is about to hit the tobacco industry.

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