Well, and sometimes that "O America" Meant the tinkerer, it meant the inventor, it meant the guy who invented a new kind of sewing machine and took it in for a patent.

有时候这个《啊,美国》,意味着工艺师,意味着发明者,意味着 发明新型缝纫机,并将它申请专利的人

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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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