Since this is something we can all identify with, I think it will help us see the relationship between the function of a structure and its style or form.

既然这是我们都能认同的东西，我认为它将帮助我们看到一个结构的功能和它的风格或形式之间的关系。

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Park of the University of Texas at Dallas and colleagues demonstrated that learning to knit or do digital photography enhanced memory function in older adults.

德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校的帕克和他的同事证明，学习编织或数码摄影可以增强老年人的记忆功能。

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But are the wear and tear and loss of function of technical objects and the death of living organisms really similar or comparable?

但是，技术品的磨损以及功能的丧失与生物体的死亡真的类似或者有可比性吗？

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Dialysis - and this is a method to replace or augment the function of your kidneys, to remove waste products really from the blood, which is something the kidney does continuously.

透析技术,这种技术用来替代,或者增强肾脏功能,以去除血液中的各种废物,就像肾脏持续进行的那样

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And again, a related problem that people run into is side-effects. You call a function and it returns a value, but maybe it, on purpose or on accident, modifies one of the actual parameters.

另外，一个人们常碰到的相关问题,就是副作用，你调用一个函数它返回一个值,但是故意或者无意的,它可能会修改一个实参的值。

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In the other studies, there was no evidence of adverse effects on kidney and liver function, no reports of light-headedness or loss of consciousness, no evidence of fluid or electrolyte loss that might contribute to heat stroke.

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