没有某位相似领域的专家，您就无法有效地研究，而那位专家就是客户。

You can't explore effectively without somebody who is an expert at similar terrain -- that's the customer.

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不管那些话是真是假，那家研究院总算是守住了跟它那个提出作战与制敌新思路地位相符的名分。

Whether or not that claim was true, the institute secured a reputation as the place to dream up new ways to wage wars and keep enemies at bay.

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又或许，一些地位相对较低的社会人类学家，可以将这些经济学家作为现代的一个族群进行研究，以报仇雪耻。

Or maybe some lower status social anthropologists could get their revenge by studying those economists, as a modern-day tribe.

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