1. An individual human existence should be like a river----small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
    个人的存在应该像一条河流，开始很小，被紧紧地夹在两岸中间，接着热情奔放地冲过巨石，飞下瀑布。

2. As long ago as 1809, the Swedish Parliament introduced a scheme to safeguard the interest of the individual.
    早在1809年，瑞典论会就建立一个保护公民利益的制度。

3. A labor inspector took the Disney organization to court this week, contending that the company's dress and appearance code — which bans moustaches, beards, excess weight, short skirts and fancy stockings — offends individual liberty and violates Fren
    一位劳工问题督察员本周将迪斯尼公司告上了法庭，他声称公司的着装规定--不准蓄胡须，不准体重超标，不准穿超短裙和花哨的袜子--侵犯了个人自由，也违反了法国的劳工法。

4. You should then establish your own individual aims. These are partly a matter of personal circumstances, partly a matter of psychology.
    然后，你一定要建立起自己的目标。这里一方面是个所处的环境，另一方面是个心理学的问题。

5. Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the individual citizen from highhanded or incompetent public officers.
    在瑞典，已逐渐形成了一种完善的制度以保护每个公民不受专横的和不称职的政府官员的欺压。

6. Modern industry is based on the conception of the maximum production at lowest cost, in order that an individual or a group of individuals may earn as much money as possible.
    现代工业的基本概念是：以最低成本获取最多产品，为的是让某个个人或某一部分人尽可能多地赚钱。

7. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual, as against any way in which he can affect traditional custom,
    约翰.杜威曾经非常严肃地指出：风俗在形成个人行为方面所起的作用和一个对风俗的任何影响相比，

8. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
    然后河面渐渐地变宽，两岸后撤，河水流得平缓起来，最后连绵不断地汇入大海，毫无痛苦地失去了自我的存在。

9. (The only exceptions are egg and sperm cells, each of which contains half the genes to grow a new individual.)
    （惟一的例外是卵子和精子细胞，它们的每个细胞分别含有长成新个体的一半基因。）

10. One person can evolve in individual actions, no matter how aberrant.
    一个人在他的个人活动中的行为会发展，不管其人的个人行为是如何越出常轨。