- So what's for all this function -- what's the role of this function in life?

这个函数是干什么的-,这个函数的最终角色是什么呢？

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All right,so this is something that's-- If the personality function's been destroyed, can't be recovered,can't be fixed, but the rest of the bodily functioning is still going on.

如果有这样的例子-,人格功能被破坏，无法修复，但剩下的生理功能仍在继续。

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Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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