Why was it worth creating a function to do this? Pardon?

创建一个函数来做这个工作又有,什么意义呢？对不起我没听清？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now students have had an experience of working with you and having an experience of what it means to go to adult and be taken seriously. And that's what some of the students at your party were saying is that with Vice President Dickerson, if you go there, you feel heard.

现在学生们有了和您工作的经历,也体验到了成为成年人的意义,他们受到了认真的对待，就像,一些学生在您办的聚会上说的,你会觉得Dickerson副校长在倾听你。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选