商业是一种竞争性强的活动：很残酷，也不允许任何错误。

Business is a competitive activity. It is very fierce and very unforgiving.

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而且也应当有竞争性的选举。

There should also be "competitive elections".

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以竞赛为例，因为视频游戏一般都是看谁得分更高，所以即便没有多玩家参与，视频游戏也天然地具有竞争性。

Take competition, for example. Video games are naturally competitive even without multiplayer because it's always about who has the higher score.

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You can only do that by balancing competitive desires that can be thought of as evil; faction was what they were talking about and everybody thought faction was bad, but it was inevitable.

你仅仅通过平衡那些被视为罪恶的,竞争性欲望就可以达到此目的,也就是,大家所谓的派系,每个人都认为派系是不好的,但它是必然存在的

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