但是这两部作品都未能很好地达到整体趣味性大于局部的目标。

But neither quite reaches the goal of the whole being more interesting than the parts.

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关于整体与局部群体与个体的思考源于对人类社会的思考，每个人都有不同，为何可以用一个标准来规范来约束众多不同的个体？

The thinking about the whole and the part originates from the thinking for the human society and it varies individually. Why not standadize and censor such varied individuals?

youdao

这也便是威尔逊精神，是对整体大于局部之和这一看法的信念。

The Wilsonian spirit—the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

youdao

They've had a great deal to do with the way the South would go, or parts of the South would go.

他们都与南方的整体形势,或局部形式紧密相关

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It's often put in terms of the relationship between the part and the whole. I approach a text and of course the first thing I read is a phrase or a sentence.

经常可以理解为,局部和整体的关系，我看到文本后,首先读到的东西理所当然是一个短语或一个句子。

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I keep referring those successive parts back to a sense of the whole which changes as a result of knowing more and more and more parts.

我继续将剩下的局部,与整体联系,然后知道越来越多的局部。

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