Rather, it is to adopt a different approach, to cease viewing the automobile as a stand-alone object and begin seeing it as a component in a much larger system.

确切的说，它是另辟蹊径，不再把汽车看作是一个单独的个体，而是把它当作一个庞大体系中的组成部分。

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The second time, he is alone, and his father is becoming a thing, an object.

NEWYORKER: Total Recall