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Palantir Is an Enigma. The Opportunity in Its Stock Is Far More Clear.<blockquote>Palantir是一个谜。其股票的机会更加明显。</blockquote>

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Palantir Is an Enigma. The Opportunity in Its Stock Is Far More Clear.<blockquote>Palantir是一个谜。其股票的机会更加明显。</blockquote>

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Palantir has a long history of serving U.S. military and intelligence agencies, but lately it’s&nbsp;been building out its sales team to bulk up its commercial business. That plan seems to be getting traction.<blockquote>Palantir（股票代码：PLTR）为商业和政府客户提供数据分析软件。这家成立18年的公司有两个主要平台——面向政府应用的Gotham和面向商业客户的Foundry。Palantir在为美国军事和情报机构提供服务方面有着悠久的历史，但最近它一直在组建销售团队以扩大其商业业务。这个计划似乎越来越受欢迎。</blockquote> Palantir went public in a direct listing last September, with the stock&nbsp;opening at $10. It’s since taken shareholders on a wild ride, trading as high as $45 earlier this year. It’s now around $25, still up 150% from listing day.<blockquote>Palantir去年9月直接上市，股价开盘价为10美元。此后，它让股东们疯狂不已，今年早些时候的交易价格高达45美元。目前约为25美元，较上市日仍上涨150%。</blockquote> In its&nbsp;recently reported June quarter, Palantir posted revenue of $376 million, up 49% from the year-earlier level. The company got a big boost from its U.S. commercial business, which grew 90%. Palantir sees September quarter revenue inching up to $385 million, and it continues to forecast annual top-line growth of 30%-plus through 2025.<blockquote>在最近报告的6月份季度中，Palantir公布收入为3.76亿美元，比去年同期增长49%。该公司的美国商业业务大幅增长了90%。Palantir预计9月份季度收入将小幅升至3.85亿美元，并继续预测到2025年年收入将增长30%以上。</blockquote> But the core story gets lost in the noise—Palantir seems to thrive on controversy. Almost everything it does is outside the box. Before last year’s stock listing, Palantir quietly moved its headquarters to Denver from Palo Alto. The reasoning boils down to politics.<blockquote>但核心故事却迷失在噪音中——Palantir似乎因争议而蓬勃发展。它所做的几乎所有事情都是在盒子之外。在去年股票上市之前，Palantir悄悄将总部从帕洛阿尔托迁至丹佛。原因可以归结为政治。</blockquote> “When we started the company in 2004, the idea was to bring world-class software to our intelligence and military communities,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp&nbsp;told me in a June interview. “Numerous companies in Silicon Valley have refused either overtly, tacitly, or by dragging their feet, to work with the U.S. government. … I believe in general there’s a choice to be made in the world, and America has serious, rigorous, intelligent, and sometimes ruthless adversaries.”<blockquote>Palantir首席执行官Alex Karp在6月份的一次采访中告诉我：“当我们在2004年创办公司时，我们的想法是为我们的情报和军事社区带来世界一流的软件。”“硅谷的许多公司都公开、默许或拖延地拒绝与美国政府合作……我相信，总的来说，世界上必须做出选择，而美国有严肃、严谨、聪明，有时甚至是无情的对手。”</blockquote> Palantir has also been doing unusual things with the $2.4 billion in cash on its balance sheet. The company is&nbsp;aggressively investing in PIPEs, or private investments in public equities, which are used in almost every SPAC merger to increase the capital raised. Palantir has&nbsp;committed $310 million across more than a dozen SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, according to its latest SEC filing. It’s completed $33 million of equity investments across three other companies.<blockquote>Palantir还利用其资产负债表上的24亿美元现金做了一些不寻常的事情。该公司正在积极投资PIPEs，即对公共股票的私人投资，几乎在每一次SPAC合并中都使用PIPEs来增加筹集的资金。根据Palantir向SEC提交的最新文件，Palantir已向十几家SPAC或特殊目的收购公司承诺了3.1亿美元。它已完成对其他三家公司3300万美元的股权投资。</blockquote> The most recent tranche includes $20 million for Fast Radius, which offers a “cloud manufacturing platform;” $15 million for Tritium, a developer of electric vehicle chargers; $15 million for AdTheorent, which sells advertising software driven by machine learning; and $10 million for FinAccel, an Asian financial-services company.<blockquote>最近的一笔资金包括2000万美元用于Fast Radius，该公司提供“云制造平台”；电动汽车充电器开发商Tritium 1500万美元；1500万美元收购AdTheorent，该公司销售由机器学习驱动的广告软件；以及向亚洲金融服务公司FinAccel提供1000万美元。</blockquote> All the targets have signed up to be Palantir customers. As of June 30, Palantir said it had commercial contracts with its SPAC portfolio companies with a potential value of $428 million; the revenue contribution in the latest quarter was just $3 million, or less than 1% of the total.<blockquote>所有目标都已签约成为Palantir客户。截至6月30日，Palantir表示与其SPAC投资组合公司签订了潜在价值为4.28亿美元的商业合同；最近一个季度的收入贡献仅为300万美元，不到总收入的1%。</blockquote> SPACs are a highly speculative place for a public company to be parking its cash. But I’d argue that Palantir’s decision to provide capital to new customers isn’t so different from offering vendor debt financing for hardware purchases—as&nbsp;IBM(IBM) and HP Enterprise (HPE) do—or from running robust venture capital programs, as do&nbsp;Intel(INTC) and&nbsp;Salesforce.com(CRM).<blockquote>SPAC是上市公司存放现金的高度投机场所。但我认为，Palantir向新客户提供资本的决定与为硬件购买提供供应商债务融资（如IBM(IBM)和HP Enterprise(HPE)所做的那样）或运行强大的风险投资计划（如英特尔(INTC)和Salesforce.com(CRM)所做的那样）并没有太大区别。</blockquote> Even so, it makes some analysts squeamish. “While we don’t oppose thinking outside the box, we think the strategy may have been taken too far, particularly with software contracts that appear to be negotiated alongside an investment by Palantir in the same customer,” Citi’s Tyler Radke wrote in a recent research note.<blockquote>即便如此，这还是让一些分析师感到不安。花旗的泰勒·拉德克(Tyler Radke)在一份报告中写道：“虽然我们并不反对跳出框框思考，但我们认为这一策略可能走得太远了，特别是在软件合同似乎是与Palantir对同一客户的投资一起谈判的情况下。”最近的研究笔记。</blockquote> The outside-the-box strategy goes beyond SPACs. This past week, Palantir disclosed that it had purchased $50.7 million worth of 100-ounce gold bars—a pretty strange move, even for Palantir. I ran a text search in the SEC’s database looking for references to gold bars, and found only references to other gold companies. The move makes&nbsp;Tesla’s(TSLA) Bitcoin purchases seem mundane.<blockquote>打破常规的策略超越了SPAC。上周，Palantir透露，它购买了价值5070万美元的100盎司金条——即使对Palantir来说，这也是一个相当奇怪的举动。我在SEC的数据库中进行了文本搜索，寻找金条的参考资料，只找到了其他黄金公司的参考资料。此举让特斯拉(TSLA)对比特币的收购显得平淡无奇。</blockquote> The fact that Palantir decided to buy physical gold, rather than, say, the&nbsp;SPDR Gold Shares&nbsp;ETF (GLD), makes it odder still. Palatnir ends up looking like the corporate equivalent of a doomsday prepper. I tried to follow-up with Karp to ask about the sudden interest in gold, but Palantir declined to make him available.<blockquote>Palantir决定购买实物黄金，而不是SPDR Gold Shares ETF(GLD)，这一事实让事情变得更加奇怪。Palatnir最终看起来就像是一个末日准备者。我试图跟进卡普，询问他对黄金突然产生的兴趣，但Palantir拒绝让他有空。</blockquote> One analyst who follows the company told me that the SPAC program and the foray into gold make Palantir a hard sell for institutional investors. You can see that in the shareholder base. Institutions hold only 25% of Palantir shares—compared with&nbsp;Oracle’s(ORCL) 46%,Snowflake’s(SNOW) 58%, and&nbsp;Microsoft’s(MSFT) 71%.<blockquote>一位关注该公司的分析师告诉我，SPAC计划和进军黄金领域使得Palantir很难被机构投资者推销。你可以在股东基础上看到这一点。机构仅持有Palantir 25%的股份，而甲骨文(ORCL)为46%，雪花(SNOW)为58%，微软(MSFT)为71%。</blockquote> But the same analyst is still bullish on Palantir and says it offers “a very interesting set of solutions to buyers that require scale and sophistication.”<blockquote>但同一位分析师仍然看好Palantir，并表示它“为需要规模和复杂性的买家提供了一套非常有趣的解决方案”。</blockquote> Palantir has a fanatical following among individual investors, and the company is playing to its fans. During its June-quarter earnings call, Palantir took nine questions from retail investors and just four from analysts.<blockquote>Palantir在个人投资者中拥有狂热的追随者，该公司正在迎合其粉丝。在六月季度财报看涨期权上，Palantir回答了散户投资者的9个问题，仅回答了分析师的4个问题。</blockquote> On traditional metrics, Palantir isn’t cheap. The stock trades for 25 times estimated 2022 sales. 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The Opportunity in Its Stock Is Far More Clear.<blockquote>Palantir是一个谜。其股票的机会更加明显。</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\nBarrons2021-08-23 23:25\n\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\nPalantir Technologies is one of the world’s quirkiest tech companies, and last week the story got weirder than ever. But beneath the surface, there’s an oddly compelling case for the business and the stock.<blockquote>Palantir Technologies是世界上最古怪的科技公司之一，上周这个故事变得比以往任何时候都更加奇怪。但在表面之下，该业务和股票有一个奇怪的令人信服的理由。</blockquote> Palantir (ticker: PLTR) provides data analytics software to both commercial and government clients. The 18-year-old company has two primary platforms—Gotham, for government applications, and Foundry, for commercial customers. Palantir has a long history of serving U.S. military and intelligence agencies, but lately it’s&nbsp;been building out its sales team to bulk up its commercial business. That plan seems to be getting traction.<blockquote>Palantir（股票代码：PLTR）为商业和政府客户提供数据分析软件。这家成立18年的公司有两个主要平台——面向政府应用的Gotham和面向商业客户的Foundry。Palantir在为美国军事和情报机构提供服务方面有着悠久的历史，但最近它一直在组建销售团队以扩大其商业业务。这个计划似乎越来越受欢迎。</blockquote> Palantir went public in a direct listing last September, with the stock&nbsp;opening at $10. It’s since taken shareholders on a wild ride, trading as high as $45 earlier this year. It’s now around $25, still up 150% from listing day.<blockquote>Palantir去年9月直接上市，股价开盘价为10美元。此后，它让股东们疯狂不已，今年早些时候的交易价格高达45美元。目前约为25美元，较上市日仍上涨150%。</blockquote> In its&nbsp;recently reported June quarter, Palantir posted revenue of $376 million, up 49% from the year-earlier level. The company got a big boost from its U.S. commercial business, which grew 90%. Palantir sees September quarter revenue inching up to $385 million, and it continues to forecast annual top-line growth of 30%-plus through 2025.<blockquote>在最近报告的6月份季度中，Palantir公布收入为3.76亿美元，比去年同期增长49%。该公司的美国商业业务大幅增长了90%。Palantir预计9月份季度收入将小幅升至3.85亿美元，并继续预测到2025年年收入将增长30%以上。</blockquote> But the core story gets lost in the noise—Palantir seems to thrive on controversy. Almost everything it does is outside the box. Before last year’s stock listing, Palantir quietly moved its headquarters to Denver from Palo Alto. The reasoning boils down to politics.<blockquote>但核心故事却迷失在噪音中——Palantir似乎因争议而蓬勃发展。它所做的几乎所有事情都是在盒子之外。在去年股票上市之前，Palantir悄悄将总部从帕洛阿尔托迁至丹佛。原因可以归结为政治。</blockquote> “When we started the company in 2004, the idea was to bring world-class software to our intelligence and military communities,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp&nbsp;told me in a June interview. “Numerous companies in Silicon Valley have refused either overtly, tacitly, or by dragging their feet, to work with the U.S. government. … I believe in general there’s a choice to be made in the world, and America has serious, rigorous, intelligent, and sometimes ruthless adversaries.”<blockquote>Palantir首席执行官Alex Karp在6月份的一次采访中告诉我：“当我们在2004年创办公司时，我们的想法是为我们的情报和军事社区带来世界一流的软件。”“硅谷的许多公司都公开、默许或拖延地拒绝与美国政府合作……我相信，总的来说，世界上必须做出选择，而美国有严肃、严谨、聪明，有时甚至是无情的对手。”</blockquote> Palantir has also been doing unusual things with the $2.4 billion in cash on its balance sheet. The company is&nbsp;aggressively investing in PIPEs, or private investments in public equities, which are used in almost every SPAC merger to increase the capital raised. Palantir has&nbsp;committed $310 million across more than a dozen SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, according to its latest SEC filing. It’s completed $33 million of equity investments across three other companies.<blockquote>Palantir还利用其资产负债表上的24亿美元现金做了一些不寻常的事情。该公司正在积极投资PIPEs，即对公共股票的私人投资，几乎在每一次SPAC合并中都使用PIPEs来增加筹集的资金。根据Palantir向SEC提交的最新文件，Palantir已向十几家SPAC或特殊目的收购公司承诺了3.1亿美元。它已完成对其他三家公司3300万美元的股权投资。</blockquote> The most recent tranche includes $20 million for Fast Radius, which offers a “cloud manufacturing platform;” $15 million for Tritium, a developer of electric vehicle chargers; $15 million for AdTheorent, which sells advertising software driven by machine learning; and $10 million for FinAccel, an Asian financial-services company.<blockquote>最近的一笔资金包括2000万美元用于Fast Radius，该公司提供“云制造平台”；电动汽车充电器开发商Tritium 1500万美元；1500万美元收购AdTheorent，该公司销售由机器学习驱动的广告软件；以及向亚洲金融服务公司FinAccel提供1000万美元。</blockquote> All the targets have signed up to be Palantir customers. As of June 30, Palantir said it had commercial contracts with its SPAC portfolio companies with a potential value of $428 million; the revenue contribution in the latest quarter was just $3 million, or less than 1% of the total.<blockquote>所有目标都已签约成为Palantir客户。截至6月30日，Palantir表示与其SPAC投资组合公司签订了潜在价值为4.28亿美元的商业合同；最近一个季度的收入贡献仅为300万美元，不到总收入的1%。</blockquote> SPACs are a highly speculative place for a public company to be parking its cash. But I’d argue that Palantir’s decision to provide capital to new customers isn’t so different from offering vendor debt financing for hardware purchases—as&nbsp;IBM(IBM) and HP Enterprise (HPE) do—or from running robust venture capital programs, as do&nbsp;Intel(INTC) and&nbsp;Salesforce.com(CRM).<blockquote>SPAC是上市公司存放现金的高度投机场所。但我认为，Palantir向新客户提供资本的决定与为硬件购买提供供应商债务融资（如IBM(IBM)和HP Enterprise(HPE)所做的那样）或运行强大的风险投资计划（如英特尔(INTC)和Salesforce.com(CRM)所做的那样）并没有太大区别。</blockquote> Even so, it makes some analysts squeamish. “While we don’t oppose thinking outside the box, we think the strategy may have been taken too far, particularly with software contracts that appear to be negotiated alongside an investment by Palantir in the same customer,” Citi’s Tyler Radke wrote in a recent research note.<blockquote>即便如此，这还是让一些分析师感到不安。花旗的泰勒·拉德克(Tyler Radke)在一份报告中写道：“虽然我们并不反对跳出框框思考，但我们认为这一策略可能走得太远了，特别是在软件合同似乎是与Palantir对同一客户的投资一起谈判的情况下。”最近的研究笔记。</blockquote> The outside-the-box strategy goes beyond SPACs. This past week, Palantir disclosed that it had purchased $50.7 million worth of 100-ounce gold bars—a pretty strange move, even for Palantir. I ran a text search in the SEC’s database looking for references to gold bars, and found only references to other gold companies. The move makes&nbsp;Tesla’s(TSLA) Bitcoin purchases seem mundane.<blockquote>打破常规的策略超越了SPAC。上周，Palantir透露，它购买了价值5070万美元的100盎司金条——即使对Palantir来说，这也是一个相当奇怪的举动。我在SEC的数据库中进行了文本搜索，寻找金条的参考资料，只找到了其他黄金公司的参考资料。此举让特斯拉(TSLA)对比特币的收购显得平淡无奇。</blockquote> The fact that Palantir decided to buy physical gold, rather than, say, the&nbsp;SPDR Gold Shares&nbsp;ETF (GLD), makes it odder still. Palatnir ends up looking like the corporate equivalent of a doomsday prepper. I tried to follow-up with Karp to ask about the sudden interest in gold, but Palantir declined to make him available.<blockquote>Palantir决定购买实物黄金，而不是SPDR Gold Shares ETF(GLD)，这一事实让事情变得更加奇怪。Palatnir最终看起来就像是一个末日准备者。我试图跟进卡普，询问他对黄金突然产生的兴趣，但Palantir拒绝让他有空。</blockquote> One analyst who follows the company told me that the SPAC program and the foray into gold make Palantir a hard sell for institutional investors. You can see that in the shareholder base. Institutions hold only 25% of Palantir shares—compared with&nbsp;Oracle’s(ORCL) 46%,Snowflake’s(SNOW) 58%, and&nbsp;Microsoft’s(MSFT) 71%.<blockquote>一位关注该公司的分析师告诉我，SPAC计划和进军黄金领域使得Palantir很难被机构投资者推销。你可以在股东基础上看到这一点。机构仅持有Palantir 25%的股份，而甲骨文(ORCL)为46%，雪花(SNOW)为58%，微软(MSFT)为71%。</blockquote> But the same analyst is still bullish on Palantir and says it offers “a very interesting set of solutions to buyers that require scale and sophistication.”<blockquote>但同一位分析师仍然看好Palantir，并表示它“为需要规模和复杂性的买家提供了一套非常有趣的解决方案”。</blockquote> Palantir has a fanatical following among individual investors, and the company is playing to its fans. During its June-quarter earnings call, Palantir took nine questions from retail investors and just four from analysts.<blockquote>Palantir在个人投资者中拥有狂热的追随者，该公司正在迎合其粉丝。在六月季度财报看涨期权上，Palantir回答了散户投资者的9个问题，仅回答了分析师的4个问题。</blockquote> On traditional metrics, Palantir isn’t cheap. The stock trades for 25 times estimated 2022 sales. But strip away the craziness, and Palantir looks like the single best bet on the future of complex data analytics. There aren’t many other ways for investors to play the opportunity—and the world isn’t getting any simpler or less dangerous.<blockquote>从传统指标来看，Palantir并不便宜。该股的交易价格是2022年预计销售额的25倍。但抛开疯狂，Palantir看起来是复杂数据分析未来的最佳选择。投资者没有太多其他方式来利用这个机会——而且世界并没有变得更简单或更不危险。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/palantir-stock-spacs-gold-51629497963?mod=hp_LEADSUPP_3\">Barrons</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"PLTR":"Palantir Technologies Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/palantir-stock-spacs-gold-51629497963?mod=hp_LEADSUPP_3","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1179203616","content_text":"Palantir Technologies is one of the world’s quirkiest tech companies, and last week the story got weirder than ever. But beneath the surface, there’s an oddly compelling case for the business and the stock.\nPalantir (ticker: PLTR) provides data analytics software to both commercial and government clients. The 18-year-old company has two primary platforms—Gotham, for government applications, and Foundry, for commercial customers. Palantir has a long history of serving U.S. military and intelligence agencies, but lately it’s been building out its sales team to bulk up its commercial business. That plan seems to be getting traction.\nPalantir went public in a direct listing last September, with the stock opening at $10. It’s since taken shareholders on a wild ride, trading as high as $45 earlier this year. It’s now around $25, still up 150% from listing day.\nIn its recently reported June quarter, Palantir posted revenue of $376 million, up 49% from the year-earlier level. The company got a big boost from its U.S. commercial business, which grew 90%. Palantir sees September quarter revenue inching up to $385 million, and it continues to forecast annual top-line growth of 30%-plus through 2025.\nBut the core story gets lost in the noise—Palantir seems to thrive on controversy. Almost everything it does is outside the box. Before last year’s stock listing, Palantir quietly moved its headquarters to Denver from Palo Alto. The reasoning boils down to politics.\n“When we started the company in 2004, the idea was to bring world-class software to our intelligence and military communities,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp told me in a June interview. “Numerous companies in Silicon Valley have refused either overtly, tacitly, or by dragging their feet, to work with the U.S. government. … I believe in general there’s a choice to be made in the world, and America has serious, rigorous, intelligent, and sometimes ruthless adversaries.”\nPalantir has also been doing unusual things with the $2.4 billion in cash on its balance sheet. The company is aggressively investing in PIPEs, or private investments in public equities, which are used in almost every SPAC merger to increase the capital raised. Palantir has committed $310 million across more than a dozen SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, according to its latest SEC filing. It’s completed $33 million of equity investments across three other companies.\n\nThe most recent tranche includes $20 million for Fast Radius, which offers a “cloud manufacturing platform;” $15 million for Tritium, a developer of electric vehicle chargers; $15 million for AdTheorent, which sells advertising software driven by machine learning; and $10 million for FinAccel, an Asian financial-services company.\nAll the targets have signed up to be Palantir customers. As of June 30, Palantir said it had commercial contracts with its SPAC portfolio companies with a potential value of $428 million; the revenue contribution in the latest quarter was just $3 million, or less than 1% of the total.\nSPACs are a highly speculative place for a public company to be parking its cash. But I’d argue that Palantir’s decision to provide capital to new customers isn’t so different from offering vendor debt financing for hardware purchases—as IBM(IBM) and HP Enterprise (HPE) do—or from running robust venture capital programs, as do Intel(INTC) and Salesforce.com(CRM).\nEven so, it makes some analysts squeamish. “While we don’t oppose thinking outside the box, we think the strategy may have been taken too far, particularly with software contracts that appear to be negotiated alongside an investment by Palantir in the same customer,” Citi’s Tyler Radke wrote in a recent research note.\nThe outside-the-box strategy goes beyond SPACs. This past week, Palantir disclosed that it had purchased $50.7 million worth of 100-ounce gold bars—a pretty strange move, even for Palantir. I ran a text search in the SEC’s database looking for references to gold bars, and found only references to other gold companies. The move makes Tesla’s(TSLA) Bitcoin purchases seem mundane.\nThe fact that Palantir decided to buy physical gold, rather than, say, the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD), makes it odder still. Palatnir ends up looking like the corporate equivalent of a doomsday prepper. I tried to follow-up with Karp to ask about the sudden interest in gold, but Palantir declined to make him available.\nOne analyst who follows the company told me that the SPAC program and the foray into gold make Palantir a hard sell for institutional investors. You can see that in the shareholder base. Institutions hold only 25% of Palantir shares—compared with Oracle’s(ORCL) 46%,Snowflake’s(SNOW) 58%, and Microsoft’s(MSFT) 71%.\nBut the same analyst is still bullish on Palantir and says it offers “a very interesting set of solutions to buyers that require scale and sophistication.”\nPalantir has a fanatical following among individual investors, and the company is playing to its fans. During its June-quarter earnings call, Palantir took nine questions from retail investors and just four from analysts.\nOn traditional metrics, Palantir isn’t cheap. The stock trades for 25 times estimated 2022 sales. But strip away the craziness, and Palantir looks like the single best bet on the future of complex data analytics. 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Palantir Is an Enigma. The Opportunity in Its Stock Is Far More Clear.<blockquote>Palantir是一个谜。其股票的机会更加明显。</blockquote>

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