Having to perform operations on a large collection of events just to get the state of a single entity isn't efficient, especially for applications for which read scalability is a concern.

必须在事件的大集合上执行操作，这样做只是为了获得单一实体的状态，这样做的效率不是很高，对于应用程序的读取可伸缩性来说，这是一个问题。

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Anytime that a system requires information about an actor — whether that information is a precise identification or just some particular information — that actor is considered to be a known entity.

任何时候当系统要求关于某个参与者的信息时—不管这个信息是确切的标识还是只鳞片爪的个别信息—这个参与者就被认为是一个已知的实体。

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The concept of a resource group is used here in a larger sense than just as a high-availability entity.

这里所使用的资源组的概念，要比高可用性实体的范畴更大一些。

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If I'm just dealing in preconceptions here, how can I take anything from the entity itself?"

如果我有先入之见，我怎么能理解这个存在呢？

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And I made clear that whilst we refer to this company as if it were an entity and as if it were the Murdoch fiefdom whilst it may approximate to the latter it is most certainty not just one entity.

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And this is just each entity pitching its own book, as we like to say.

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