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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
解放文字意味着首先打破它们作为思想、记忆、希望或遗憾载体的功能。
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
以正确的方式让我们感到渺小是艺术的一种功能;男人只会让我们以错误的方式感到渺小。
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
公司过去能够与专制的老板共事。我们不再生活在那个世界上了。
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。
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。
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。