就我而言，我站在前者的角度。

As far as I am concerned, I stand in the former side.

youdao

Nathanson建议投资者把重心放在前者身上。

He suggests investors focus on the former.

youdao

我们不是生活在前者，就生活在后者之中，但是不能共同拥有这两个世界。

We either live in one or the other; we can't have it both ways.

youdao

Similarly,had we had somebody with Napoleon's personality in New York and nobody with the personality in Michigan, that guy would have been Napoleon, because we would have had the same personality with no branching,with no competitor.

同样地，假如在纽约出现拥有拿破仑人格的人,而在密西根没有出现，那么前者将是拿破仑，因为在相同的人格下，不存在分支和竞争者。

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