Imagine that you were only allowed to fly on one airline, or take a single route to work, or use one designated checkout counter at the grocery store.

想象一下，你只能使用一家航空公司，或者只走一条路去工作，或者在杂货店只能使用一个指定的收银台。

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You might have thought that VW was one of the greenest car companies out there, but did you know they only stepped up to make their cars more efficient when they were forced to do so?

你或许曾经认为大众是世界上最绿色的汽车公司，但你知道吗？他们只是在被迫之下才迈出制造更有能效汽车的脚步的？

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Thus were you to load the washer with clothes of only one color-say a uniform purple-the lint would indeed be of that color.

因此如果在洗衣机里搁置的是一种颜色的衣物，例如紫色，那绒线就是紫色。

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But that's the only one he's going to lose because you were defending the wrong pass.

但是他只会损失一个营,因为你选择了在错误的途径设防

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Especially when you consider that the Amber Army were only one game away from the top flight of English football less than 20 years ago.

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And if (this would be a truly unrealistic haystack) the haystack were one-dimensional, so that you could only move forwards and backwards along it, your chance of success would actually be quite high, even if the direction of each step was random.

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This means that you only need to have one EU company to trade anywhere in the EU. So, if you were an American company that wanted to sell in Europe you could set up a subsidiary in, say, Ireland, and sell to all of the other 26 countries from there.

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