The game is based on the tension between the interests of an individual and a group.

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Each individual reaches a decision--each individual has an income point and decides how much to consume based on the budget constraint.

在预算限制内,每个人都要决定将收入的多少,用于消费

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now let's go back to each of our individual steps and look, based on what we know about how to evaluate the thermodynamic changes that take place here, let's look at each one of the steps and see what happens.

让我们回到循环中的每一步,然后看看，基于我们已有的知识,来估计一下,发生的热力学变化，让我们看,循环中的每一步发生了什么。

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This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances, protection of individual rights, and so on.

这似乎在很多方面,有别于美式民主,后者的根基是宪制政府，制衡体系，保障个人权利等。

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Or what - and often it's not going to be just one gene, it's going to be combinations of genes, and how do you predict the fate of the individual based on all of the genes that you know to be involved in progression of a certain disease.

有时候甚至都不仅仅是一个基因的问题,引发疾病的是一些不同基因的组合,并且怎样基于,导致某种特定疾病的所有基因,来预测一个人未来是否会患这种疾病呢

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The aim of the Republic is to establish a harmonious city, based on a conception of justice that, so to speak, harmonizes the individual and society, how to achieve that.

理想国》的主要目的,是要建立一座和谐的城邦，其基础概念是正义，也可以说是要协调个人与社会，及陈述达成目的的方法。

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