It's just that individual actions are too slow, she says, for that to be the only, or even primary, approach to changing widespread behavior.

她说，只是个体行动过于缓慢，不足以成为改变普遍行为的唯一的、甚至首要的方法。

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Newly raised regiments were normally transferred to another province from whence it was unlikely that individual recruits would ever return.

新组建的兵团通常会被调到另一个省份，招募到的新兵就不太可能再返回。

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American author Peter Miller explains, "I used to think that individual ants knew where they were going, and what they were supposed to do when they got there."

美国作家彼得·米勒解释说：“我曾经认为每一只蚂蚁都知道它们要去哪里，以及它们到达那里后应该做什么。”

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He suggested that individual organisms changed in reaction to their environment and passed on these traits to the next generation.

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It's a dream of changing the tradition, of having that individual voice added to the tradition, to have it become part of the official heritage and yet at odds with it, casting a different light back.

这是试图改变传统的梦想，试图在传统中,加入自己的声音，让其成为官方遗产的一部分,尽管格格不入，在后面投入一片不一样的光亮。

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It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

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However, other union officials suggested that individual pilots may nonetheless choose to join the strikes.

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The second-most common response was that individual investors are looking for bargains among stocks.

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What it couldn't tell you, to within a few years, is when that individual died.

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