We pointed out the other day that we are functioning not with all our senses, but only partially.

前两天我们指出过，我们并没有运用我们所有的感官在运作，而只是部分地运作。

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Not surprisingly, sociologists find that the strength of a group's primary ties has implications for the group's functioning.

毫不奇怪，社会学家发现，一个群体主要联系的强度对这个群体的功能是有影响的。

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Not only are there differences in the level of the functioning of respiratory systems, there are even changes in how they function.

呼吸系统不仅在运作层次上有差异，甚至在运作方式上也有变化。

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Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

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So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.

这意味着，我们默认，有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。

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It's true that when you've got a corpse, you've got all the parts there, but clearly they're not functioning properly.

当你面对一具死尸时,肉体所有的部分的确都摆在那里,但它们显然无法正常运作

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And that's really the way the credit markets were functioning not so awful long ago.

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Computer systems were not functioning but data was manually adjusted, artillery expert Steven Krstic said.

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Scotland also had the Irish scrum creaking while the home line-outs were not functioning to order.

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