Even when repeat business is important, consumers would not be able to punish corrupt businessmen if they cannot readily determine whether or not they have been cheated or badly misled.

即使在交易的多次进行非常重要的情况下，如果消费者不能很容易地判定他们是否受到了欺骗或严重误导，他们也惩罚不了那些黑心商家。

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Even today, about half of those in the community report feeling angry, frustrated, or cheated by Exxon - and by the court system, after drawn-out litigation.

即使在今天，仍有一半的社区居民表示愤怒、沮丧或感到受到埃克森石油公司的欺骗——在漫长的法律诉讼程序后法庭系统也得出了相同结论。

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Harry even cheated death, but not through grotesque manipulations or twisted Dark Magic, but by means of the very powers Voldemort fights against.

哈利甚至骗过了死亡，但不是通过奇异的举动或者使用黑魔法，而是用伏地魔与之斗争的那些力量。

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But the people who seem perplexed by the thing, or aggrieved, or even cheated somehow, are sadly typical of a widespread attitude among news consumers: News is free.

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In fact, the first few days I sort of felt cheated, or maybe even a little bit hungry, because I wasn't able to eat meat, but I found that this is mostly psychological, that as long as you have protein in some form, whether it's beans or tofu, and you get used to it, it's really - you don't feel like you're missing much at all.

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