A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
函数
Function
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
宽容——一种熄灭的热情的作用——不能引诱年轻人。
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。
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
我们喜欢和欣赏的电影在某种程度上是我们看电影时的真实自我的体现。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
我有点工作狂的倾向，但如果没有家庭生活，我也无法正常工作。
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
宽恕是一种意志的行为，而意志的作用与心灵的温度无关。
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
我将试着解释我的审美情感的程度。我认为，这就是批评家的职责。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.
世界卫生组织就是这样，而且一直都是这样。如果它今天还存在于这场音乐会中，那也是对街头表演的回应。
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
我在贝多芬、柏辽兹、瓦格纳和其他作曲家的作品中发现，当他们由一个像风车一样运转的指挥家指挥时，他们的作品很少。
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。
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。
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?