A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
函数
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
生物体最深层的功能之一就是向前看……生产的未来。
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
我在生活中的职责不是成为议会中的一名政治家:而是把事情办好。
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
此外，顺序是构成结构函数的必要条件。一种物理机制，无论是一组劳动者，动物的身体，还是机器，只有在符合物理秩序的情况下才能工作。
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。
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
我们读的书越多，就越清楚地认识到，作家的真正职责是创作一部杰作，没有其他任何任务是重要的。
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
形式和功能是一个整体，一个硬币的两面。为了增强功能，必须存在或创建适当的表单。