Its assumption is that punishments serve a function of determent.
这种偏见假定惩罚起起到威慑的作用。
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
指纹有一个作用——它们可以为手指抓东西提供摩擦力。
Hiccups no longer serve a function, but they persist without causing us harm-aside from frustration and occasional embarrassment.
嗝不再是作为一个功能器官，除了会引起小挫折和偶尔的尴尬外，他们不会造成其他任何问题。
Being in an affiliating status, tortious liability of liquidation obligor can serve a function to realize specific judicial policy.
清算义务人的侵权责任具有实现特定司法政策的功能，处于辅助性的地位。
All communication systems serve a purpose, a pragmatic function of some sort.
所有的通信系统都有一个目的，某种实用的功能。
Because both sexes of white-tailed respond to buck rubs by smelling and licking them, rubs may serve a very important additional function.
因为两种性别的白尾鹿都是通过嗅和舔来对雄鹿的摩擦做出反应的，所以摩擦可能还有一个非常重要的附加功能。
As individuals, we don't serve a similar function for the companies where we work or the communities where we live.
作为个人，我们不能为我们工作的公司或生活的社区提供类似的服务。
Biofilm, the researchers think, could serve a dual function: it could help bacterial colonies grow toward resources as a collective swarm, and it might also help block out competing colonies.
研究人员们认为，生物膜具有双重作用，一方面它能够是菌落朝着营养源成群生长，同时它又能够阻止竞争菌落对于资源的掠夺。
While apologies serve a useful function as a first step, we easily over-estimate the work they can do in repairing a relationship.
当道歉首先起到作用的时候，我们很容易高估了我们重新修复一段关系的能力。
Each function is relatively small, but all together, the functions serve to hide a lot of annoying details.
每个函数都相当小，但是它们隐藏了大量烦人的细节。
A Web page - whether it's on an outpost such as Facebook or LinkedIn or a site built out with communications tools - can serve that function pretty well.
个人网页——无论是Facebook或LinkedIn这样的交友网站，还是带有交流工具的网页——都能很好地实现这一功能。
While Wikipedia is not usually billed as a catalog, my description should make it clear that it does in fact serve that function, and in a concept-oriented way.
人们通常并不觉得Wikipedia是一个目录，我的描述或许会让你明白，它不仅起着目录的功能，而且还是用基于概念的方式。
Babyfaceness is but one example: political conservatism, style of speech or dress, smiling behavior, or even a Harvard education might also serve a similar disarming function.
娃娃脸只是一个例子：政治保守主义，语言或穿着的风格，微笑的行为，或者乃至哈佛教育也可能作为撤防功能。
The manager of the project, John Hoey, says the development looked for businesses that would serve a regenerative function, and avoided takeaway food and liquor licences.
该项目的经理约翰•霍伊表示，这个开发项目主要是寻求那些有利于再生功能的业务，拒绝食品外卖和白酒销售。
In some cases, a worm may perform an additional function outside of simple replication: it may serve as a deployment mechanism for an enclosed payload.
在某些情况下，除简单的复制功能外，蠕虫还可执行其他功能：作为一个封装的负载的部署机制。
But some luxury goods also serve a practical function.
当然，有的奢侈品也有实用功能。
The group discussions first serve an educational function and then edge into a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
起初，团体讨论作为一种教育工具，然后才转变为认知行为治疗(CBT)。
Your dishwasher, your car, your DVR all serve a practical, well-defined purpose. Today’s humanoids, meanwhile, serve almost no practical function.
我们知道，洗碗机、汽车、录像机等等都用实用而明确的功能定位，相比之下，仿人机器人几乎没有确切的功能定位。
Through effective oversight, the CFTC enables the futures markets to serve the important function of providing a means for price discovery and offsetting price risk.
通过有效的监督，商品期货交易委员会使期货市场服务的重要职能，提供了一种手段，价格发现和弥补价格风险。
Demand curve — a function that relates the quantity of a commodity or serve consumers wish to purchase to the price of that commodity.
需求曲线——一个关联到商品数量或服务消费者愿望的与这个商品购买价格关系的函数。
In March 2011, Informix introduced significant new function that dramatically enhanced its ability to serve as a data warehouse or data analysis server.
年3月，Informix引入了重要的新功能，极大地提高了它作为数据仓库或者数据分析服务器的功能。
Moreover, any Lua value — including a function or another table — can serve as a dictionary element key.
另外，任何lua值——包括函数或其他表——都可以用作字典元素的键值。
At the ministry of higher education, where officials try to mollify petitioners, Tahar Labassi, a linguistics professor drafted in to serve as chief of cabinet, thinks the state may cease to function.
在官员试图安抚请愿者的高等教育部，被抽调为内阁首席的语言学教授TaharLabassi认为，国家可能会停止运转。
Fortunately, Rhino provides another way to create objects, using the constructor function. For example, the following function might serve as a constructor function for an object of type person.
幸运的是，Rhino提供了另外一种创建对象的方法：使用构造函数(constructorfunction)。
However, there are cases when a non-member function is enough to serve the role of a mediator.
但是，也有情况下，当一个非成员函数足以成为一个中间人的角色。
To me, architecture is something you do to serve a certain function, it's for people, there have to be something that somehow relates to life itself of that particular time and place.
对于我来说，建筑是为了达到一定的功用，是为了人们，在某个特定的时间和地点通过某种方式来与生命本身产生关联。
This will serve to the gathering function of the space, furthermore provide a pleasant place for workers where they can just relax and enjoy a stimulating conversation.
这有助于空间的功能集聚，此外还为这儿的员工提供了一个愉快的休息场所，他们可以尽情地放松，天马行空地交流。
This will serve to the gathering function of the space, furthermore provide a pleasant place for workers where they can just relax and enjoy a stimulating conversation.
这有助于空间的功能集聚，此外还为这儿的员工提供了一个愉快的休息场所，他们可以尽情地放松，天马行空地交流。
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