We cannot have the former without the latter.

没有后者，就没有前者。

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Without the latter nobody would buy anything, and without the former everybody would buy everything.

没有后者没有人会买任何东西，没有前者大家都会购买一切。

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The former implies the ability to migrate from one environment to another without modification while the latter allows for cross-platform (or in this case, cross-cloud) deployment.

前者意味着从一个环境迁移到另一个环境而无需作任何修改，而后者允许了跨平台(或者在这里，跨云)的部署。

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He said "were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Without the latter, entitlement programmes will have to be eviscerated, even if, as now looks possible, the defence budget takes a share of the pain.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

To counter this, the coalition should directly tie increased benefits with increased voting, refusing to deliver on the former without more of the latter.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Myth of the Sunni Diehard

Comparing the little-known Pollocks at the Hood with the paintings that later became touchstones of international veneration reveals that we might not have had the latter without the foundation laid by the former.

WSJ: Men of Fire | Hood Museum | Becoming Jackson Pollock | By Lee Rosenbaum