但是今日的许多精英们并不相信他们只是碰巧处在游戏中的一个有利位置上。他们竭尽全力谋求胜利，这就意味着要把其他的人打下去。

Many of today's meritocrats, in contrast, don't believe it's a rigged game in their favour, and commit themselves to winning it at all costs, which means stepping on everyone else.

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莫斯说，游戏玩家通常用数字和符号来代替字母。 他们创造出了一种“l33t speak”“精英语言”（网络黑话），“l33t”读作“leet”，是elite（精英）一词的缩写。

Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" — that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.

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但是就像澳大利亚国立大学的Andrew Walker和Nicholas Farrelly所说的那样，泰国的精英对待概念不够灵活，他们将权力算计成零和游戏。

But as Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly of Australian National University put it, Thailand's elite is less conceptually adroit, calculating power in zero-sum terms.

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