This left the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income.

这使得幕府将军们只把商业作为政府收入的潜在来源。

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That too is a potential source of tension.

这也是紧张情绪的一个潜在的因素。

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So the main business of government consists in knowing how to control the elites because they are always a potential source of conflict and ambition.

因此统治的第一要务在于,懂得如何控制精英人物因为,他们往往是冲突和野心的潜在来源。

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It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

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But here, there's a potential source of conflict here.

但是这儿有个潜在的冲突

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He noted that mobile phones were only one potential source of boorish behaviour in the theatre.

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Asset management is another potential source of income growth, but Chinese banks have work to do in that area.

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They may also ignore non-customers (who are the biggest potential source of growth) and the elderly (who seldom tweet).

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