The nutritional needs of retinal cells can be a function of supply.

视网膜的细胞需要营养供应才能有功能。

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It may be a function of empathy; we feel badly for the objects of our derision.

这也许是移情作用的一个功能；我们会对自己嘲笑的对象感到抱歉。

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Reproductive cancers may be a function of longer lives and changing cultures.

生殖性肿瘤可能就是人类寿命延长 和社会文化演变的产物。

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So that you could see that for the ideal gas, u would not be a function of volume, but only of temperature.

所以我们可以看到对理想气体，内能不依赖于体积，而仅仅是温度的函数。

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It could be information-oriented, it could be a dialogue, it could be some kind of tools, a request function or dictionary or computing request.

可以是信息导向的，也可以是对话，或者是一种工具，一种对功能的需求，比如对字典，计算的需求。

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But we are going to be spending a fair amount of time talking actually about the meaning and the function of Israel's purity laws and cultic laws in a later lecture.

但是接下来我们将花相当一部分的时间,讨论以色列纯度法律和祭仪法律的,意义和作用。

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But share price is supposed to be a function of future earnings, in theory, at least.

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This suggested that violence might, to a critical extent, be a function of the conditions of incarceration.

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Nothing has been confirmed and the speculation may just be a function of the intense pressure many car makers are facing.

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