But closer ties were not welcomed between the government and a religious group known as the Mormons.

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We asked them to identify themselves and identify themselves not only in terms of the worth they were doing but the capabilities they might bring to the group as a whole.

我们要求他们,给自己定位,不仅从自身价值的角度,而且从能为整个组,做出多少贡献的角度。

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In founding the city, he says, we are not looking to of any one individual or any group but rather to the city as a whole.

在创造城市时，我们不是在找寻,个人或团体的特殊快乐,而是要以城市的整体来看。

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There have been cases,gruesome as they may be, in which entire groups of people drink poison together so as to die not alone, but die together,die as part of jointly dying,dying as a group.

有过一些例子，虽然听起来很可怕，一群人一起喝毒药以免孤单的死去，而是共同死亡，作为群体行为的一部分。

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