It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components.

有一点非常重要，即我们要把它视为一个完整的系统，而不只是一堆独立组件的总和。

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We want to write a function that given a function to compute the sum of a sequence, gives us the next function to compute the sum of a sequence.

我们要编写一个返回另一个函数的函数，用返回的函数计算对序列求和。

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It is very significant for us to sum up and reflect the ideological contents, characteristics and theoretical merits and demerits of different stages in the 20th - century study of Chinese philosophy.

总结和反省20世纪中国哲学研究各个阶段的思想内容、特点及理论得失，对于展望中国哲学及中国哲学研究在新世纪的走向有重要的意义。

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Of course I am labouring the point here to remind us that there has never been a time when mastering the sum of human knowledge has not been felt to be an impossible task.

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Good charts keep this in mind and give us a sum greater than the whole of its parts.

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The rise of participatory culture in social media, Web 2.0, open source, mobile networks, is teaching us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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