These kind of natural and spontaneous arrangements are not global, they're not big enough and important enough.

这种自发性的商议,并不是全球性的，它们的规模不够大，也不那么重要。

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Well, typically the two armies aren't identical in size.

而通常两只军队的规模不可能完全一样

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Then when we look at the statistics, all we see are a lot of assets in the fund that performed well and the underperforming fund that was merged out of existence isn't there anymore.

于是当我们去查阅统计资料时,只能看到资产规模巨大且运作良好的基金,那些运作不佳的基金,随着合并与它的纪录一起消失了

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