"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

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They're just not, they are not amateurs. I mean, some of these people, they're not like amateurs.

事实上他们并非业余的。我是说，这些人当中，有些完全不像是业余爱好者。

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And in a sense, it's more democratic because you're getting people who are quote "amateurs".

从某种意义上讲，这个节目更加民主，因为参赛者都是所谓的业余爱好者。

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