Marriage is individual act in appearance, but social act in nature.

婚姻从表象上是个人行为，从本质上是社会行为。

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Project-designing is not a purely individual act, but rather a systematically social one enriched with cultural significance.

工程设计不是单独的个人行为，而是富有文化意蕴的社会性的系统行动。

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It is not legitimate to rate their total worth on the basis of their individual act.

用人的个别行为来衡量他们的价值是不合理的。

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Is it no more than the inevitable response to an individual act of defiance?

ECONOMIST: Vietnam

At the same time, a different set of IBM researchers in Switzerland have discovered a way to make individual molecules act like "switches" without altering the framework of the molecule, which could lead to molecular logic circuits.

ENGADGET: IBM researchers get closer to nanotech hard drives

The problem is that the ECFR's argument is both true and beside the point, because it is so far removed from the way that individual countries act and think (reminiscent, in this respect, of the French statement issued after the Olympics proclaiming that the EU had collectively won, with a total of 280 medals).

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne