A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Function
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
后代的功能是照顾自己。
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
在我们这个时代，美是有作用的。
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
功能越小，管理越大。
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
公民的作用和士兵的作用是不可分割的。
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
身体的主要功能是携带大脑。
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
对功能的认识总是先于对存在的认识。
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
把有用的和愉快的结合起来的人会得到每个人的赞同。
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
小说家的作用……就是以他的眼光来评价生活。
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
谁敢把模仿自然的枯燥功能赋予艺术呢?
I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
我在混乱中不能很好地工作，无论是我的床单还是洗碗机。
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
猫的目的是要告诉我们，并非自然界的一切都有作用。
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
当科学确定并阐明真理时，它就完成了它的功能。
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
我写作的目的是为了获得一种放松的感觉，达到奶牛在挤奶时享受的功能。
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
智力的作用是提供一种方法来改变我们对生活环境的反应，使我们能够获得快乐，这是幸福的征兆。
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
我认为最重要的是事情应该运作良好;他们应该功能。
To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
对我来说，在最好的情况下，这就是艺术应该做的，发挥情感和智力的功能。
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
作为一名职业女性，当我不区分工作和娱乐时，我的表现最好。
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
所以我开始研究马铃薯的氧化系统，如果氧化系统受损，马铃薯会变成棕色。我这样做是希望通过这些研究，发现了解肾上腺功能的关键。