'That's the key. I think it's a collective thing.

这是关键，我认为防守需要集体的力量。

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Still, he says there may well be such a thing as collective intelligence, but he thinks it will take a lot more work to define it.

尽管如此，他说，很可能有像集体智慧这样的东西，但是他认为还需要更多的工作来给它下定义。

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And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making.

并且这些动物能通过1到2件事情来教会人们共同决定的要素。

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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You think Bentham is wrong to say the right thing to do is to add up the collective happiness?

你认为边沁是错的吗,他说正确之举就是，增加集体大众的幸福？

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"If the individual decides to take the training individually and then gets motivated or does an act on his own, you cannot level that as a collective thing from Pakistan, or say that any sort of help is being given to them, " he said.

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And secondly, there is no such thing as collective guilt.

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For one thing, the collective-dominance doctrine has been weakened in the EU's own Court of First Instance.

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