A group won't be smart if its members imitate one another, slavishly follow fads, or wait for someone to tell them what to do.

如果一个群体的成员只是互相模仿，不知所谓地追求时尚，或总是等着别人告诉他如何行动的话，那么这个群体就不可能是智慧的群体。

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Of course, there's nothing forcing you to slavishly follow this methodology.

当然，没有什么强迫您盲目采取这种方式。

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As a result, he usually felt free not to follow nonsensical directives from the bank headquarters or to respond so slavishly as the rest of us felt we had to.

结果，他通常不守银行总部发出的无理命令，亦毋须像我们那样唯命是从。

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These new ways should be based on the individual gifts of its current team, not on a need to slavishly follow the ruts left by Jobs.

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The app is offered for free and is currently in beta, promising to supplant any diet books and eating plans you may have tried to slavishly follow.

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But Britain does not just slavishly follow America.

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