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函数
Function
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。
It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.
只是，当乐团看着我的时候，我想让他们看到一个全身心投入的人，他能反映出我们排练的内容，他的作用是让他们有可能做到这一点。
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.
军国主义本质上是一种思维方式，一定程度上诠释了国家的功能;此外，这种思维方式还表现在它的外在形式上:军备和国家组织。
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。
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。
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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。
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。
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?
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。
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。
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。