Schumer says, taken as a whole, the changes mean any benefits are in name only.

舒默说，从整体上看，这些变化意味着任何好处都只是名义上的。

Taken as a whole, these findings suggest high vagal tone makes it easier to generate positive emotions and that this, in turn, drives vagal tone still higher.

作为一个整体来看，这些发现意味着，这迷走神经张力指数越高，越容易产生积极情绪；反过来，积极情绪又能促进指数的提升。

This has the advantage of ensuring that the windfall gain or loss shall be zero over the life of the equipment taken as a whole.

这样做的好处是确保意外收益或损失在整个设备的使用寿命内为零。

Obviously consumption-goods, taken as a whole, have in this sense the longest period of production, since of every productive process they constitute the last stage.

显然，从整体上看，消费品在这个意义上具有最长的生产周期，因为它们构成了每个生产过程的最后阶段。

Treatment means to select the corresponding therapy according to the result of syndrome differentiation. Taken as a whole, treatment based on syndrome differentiation is a process to understand and resolve a disease.

治疗是指根据辨证结果选择相应的治疗方法。从整体上看， 以辨证论治为基础的治疗是一个理解和解决疾病的过程。