Are we more than the sum of our biology?

我们不是单单的生物体征综合吧？

As such, it is more than the sum of its parts.

因此，爱，不止于是部分的叠加而已。

Because this study indicates lichens are truly more than the sum of their parts.

因为这项研究表明，地衣不仅仅是各部分的单纯相加。

But Ernest Hemingway was more than the sum of his works.

但欧内斯特·海明威不仅仅是他作品的总和。

I love collaborations because collaborations are more than the sum of their parts.

我喜欢合作，因为合作不仅仅是各个部分的总和。

A painting is more than the sum of its parts.

一幅画的整体效果远比细节重要。

Being able to read and write is always more than the sum of its parts because of what it opens up for people.

能够阅读和写作总是大于其各部分的总和，因为它为人们打开了大门。

Because they're presumably confident that Yellow will be able to sell its assets for more than the sum of all of the company's debt.

因为他们大概相信 Yellow 能够以高于公司所有债务总和的价格出售其资产。

He is therefore attracted to the idea that food is nothing more than the sum of its nutrient parts: fats plus carbs plus protein and fibre, and so on.

因此，他被这样一种观点所吸引，即食物只不过是其营养成分的总和: 脂肪加碳水化合物加蛋白质和纤维，等等。

It grows and develops even through the experience of those personalities that compose it, and it is, to put it as simply as possible, more than the sum of its parts.

它甚至通过构成它的那些人格的经验而成长和发展，而且，尽可能简单地说，它不仅仅是其各部分的总和。

Each rivet, each piece of metal, every dial and lever in the cockpit, they were all parts of a larger whole, a magnificent creature that was more than the sum of its parts.

每一颗铆钉，每一块金属，驾驶舱里的每一个表盘和操纵杆，它们都是一个更大整体的一部分，一个宏伟的生物，大于其部分的总和。

To answer these questions, we need to go back to the start of the book as we know it and understand how these elements came together to make something more than the sum of their parts.

要回答这些问题，我们需要回到我们所知道的本书的开头，了解这些元素如何组合在一起，创造出比各部分之和更重要的东西。

While there's no immediate applications for this, researchers working with these bots are really seeking to expand our understanding of how swarms of robots cooperate and become more than the sum of their parts--like bees or ants.

虽然目前还没有直接的应用，但研究这些机器人的研究人员确实在寻求扩大我们对机器人群如何合作的理解，并变得不仅仅是它们各部分的总和——比如蜜蜂或蚂蚁。