It bought it major direct competitor, Flexcar, in 2007.

2007年，它收购了主要直接竞争对手Flexcar。

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Most likely, there is a near competitor, or a direct competitor that is about to emerge.

最有可能的，是有近的竞争对手，或直接竞争对手就是即将出现。

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With the defeat at West Ham, Portsmouth made a big disappointment for themselves because they lost to a direct competitor.

因为在西汉姆的失利，普斯茅斯令自己非常失望，因为他们输给了一个直接竞争对手。

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The HP Cloud is based on OpenStack and is a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services.

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You can lose, win or draw but if you lose against your direct competitor it is painful.

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But articles like this position Flash as an apples-to-apples direct competitor to HTML5, when in fact, they are complementary.

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