When you decide to become a front-end consumer-oriented service, you really need to be better than your competition.

当作为前端客户导向型的服务提供商时，就需要做得比竞争者更好。

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We can't conclude that until we know that there aren't any competitors, that there isn't anybody else right now who also has the same personality.

我们不能妄下定论，直到确定没有其他竞争者，确定目前没有其他任何人拥有相同的人格。

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Another competitor could join the market.

别的竞争者会加入市场

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So, the government created competitors and it privatized them so that both Fannie and Freddie became what are called GSEs -these are Government Sponsored Enterprises.

政府先培育一些行业竞争者,然后再让它们私有化,于是房利美和房地美,成为了所谓的GSEs,即政府支持企业

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Provided there's only one best competitor, not two equally good candidates.

前提是只有一个最佳竞争者，而不是两个同样优秀的候选人。

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So where the original personality theory said,same personality, that's good enough for being the same person, the new version throws in a no-competitors clause, throws in a no branching clause.

所以原人格理论说，相同人格，足以使之成为相同的人，新版人格理论添加了一个无竞争者条件，添加了一个无分支条件。

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Similarly,had we had somebody with Napoleon's personality in New York and nobody with the personality in Michigan, that guy would have been Napoleon, because we would have had the same personality with no branching,with no competitor.

同样地，假如在纽约出现拥有拿破仑人格的人,而在密西根没有出现，那么前者将是拿破仑，因为在相同的人格下，不存在分支和竞争者。

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The body theorist should say, The key to personal identity is having the same body, to wit,the same brain,to wit,enough of the brain to keep the personality going-- provided that there's no branching,no splitting,no perfect competitors,only one.

肉体主义者能说，个人认同感的关键就是拥有肉体，也就是说拥有足够支持人格继续的大脑-,在没有分支，分裂以及竞争者的前提下。

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