He seems to be rather despairing about whether this book is actually going to have any affect.

他似乎颇为绝望,不明这本书,是否真能产生功用。

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Writing and speech are interdependent and interrelated phenomena which do different things.

书写和演讲是相互依赖的现象,它们有不同的功用。

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What is Socrates trying to do here, and what is that metaphor, ? that central metaphor, ? what function does it serve within the work?

苏格拉底倒底想干吗，那个隐喻，那个核心隐喻是啥，它在本书中有啥功用？

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This also had a cultic function as well.

它也有一个宗教功用。

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To him this was not useless, because it didn't serve the state.

这对彼得大帝来说无所功用,因为这对俄国没有任何贡献

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That's what your shield is for.

这就是盾牌的功用

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And this is my colleague, Marianne LaFrance, who is actually not smiling in that picture but she studies smiling and smiling in adults, smiling in children, smiling across cultures, and the different social uses of smiling.

另一位是我的同事，法国人玛丽安，她在照片上没有笑,但她研究微笑，成人的微笑，孩子的微笑，文明的微笑，微笑的不同社会功用。

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And again, we could spend a lot of class time saying, well riboflavin does this for the body and that for the body, but my guess is most of you wouldn't find that so interesting and for those of you who would, the information on it is available elsewhere as I said.

我们可以花很多课堂时间来说,核黄素对机体有这样那样的功用,不过我猜你会感到很无趣的,而对此感兴趣的同学,我说过你也可以从其他途径获得这些信息

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We love to read and everything we read is a page turner, ; all to the good; but the fact is our fascination with reading isn't simply a fascination that takes the form of having fun.

我们喜欢阅读，并且总是迫不及待地翻到下一页，每一页都在讲好事;,但是事实上阅读真正令我们着迷的地方,并不在于简单的娱乐功用。

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What function does the best regime play ? in political science?

但最优政体在,政治科学中的功用为何？

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Doing anything you like, it seems to be the opposite of the platonic understanding of justice as each one doing a special function ? or fulfilling or doing a special craft.

做你爱做的事，这似乎有别于,柏拉图所理解的正义,不是要每个人都拥有一样,特殊的功用或善尽或发挥一种特殊技能吗。

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Those places were simply the place where the king or the emperor ruled, the place where the main god's palace was, the place where the bureaucrats were to do their business, that's what it was,no more than that.

那些地方仅仅只是,国王或君主的领地,祭祀主神的宫殿所在地,官僚办公的地方,这就是它们当时的功用,不会超出这个范围

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So what is the function of Kallipolis, ? this perfect, this beautiful city?

因此，到底，Kallipolis，的功用为何，这个完美的美丽之城？

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