然而，从我们的回答中并不能推断出一切分布的事物就是服务。

However, reading the answer does not infer that everything that is distributed is a service.

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市场细分是指把某一特定的产品或服务的市场切分成若干部分的行为。

Segmentation is the process of slicing a market for a particular product or service into a number of different segments.

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切分还可以改善可靠性，因为即便一个切分意外失效，其他切分仍然可以服务数据。

Sharding also conceivably improves reliability, because even if one shard unexpectedly fails, others are still able to serve data.

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