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 如何翻译和理解标有红色的这句话? 
 This truth was not apparent to managers of one regional     逆向指代 
 bank, which failed to improve its competitive position     
 (15) despite its investment in reducing the time a customer had   
 to wait for a teller. The bank managers did not recognize    
 the level of customer inertia in the consumer banking 
 industry that arises from the inconvenience of switching 
 banks. Nor did they analyze their service improvement to 
 (20) determine whether it would attract new customers by pro- 
 ducing a new standard of service that would excite cus- 
 tomers or by proving difficult for competitors to copy. The 
 only merit of the improvement was that it could easily be 
 described to customers. 
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