You might think that its function is to make you more - a better cyclist but that's not its only function.

你也许只知道它的作用是--,使你成为一个更好的自行车手,但这并不是它的唯一功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It turns out there's a new function strlen S-T-R-L-E-N that you probably have not used yet called strlen, S-T-R-L-E-N, programmers early on and still like to be succinct but communicates sufficiently what they mean.

结果这里有个新的函数,你可能没有使用过，叫做，早期的和现在的程序员喜欢简洁地,但是能充分的传达他们的意思。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because certainly there is a theory that art's main function is to provide succor and solace in this "vail of tears". -Right.

因为确实有一种理论认为艺术的主要,功能是提供帮助与安慰,因为世界纷繁而痛苦，-对的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And it probably--One--There's--Evolutionary psychologists debate the function of why we talk funny to babies.

进化心理学家们在争论,我们为何要以如此好玩的方式来同婴儿讲话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

PROFESSOR2: So it's not really a Boolean-valued function.

教授2：因此这并不是一个,真正的布尔值的函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And what here is just a graph of the 1 s wave function going across some radius defined this way, and you can see that the probability - well, this is the wave function, so we would have to square it and think about the probability.

这里是,1s波函数,沿这个方向的图，你们可以看到概率,这是波函数，所以我们可以把它平方,并想成是概率。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

- 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？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So when you have a function called GetString, -- that means it's going to get a string from the user -- -- prompt the user for a string -- whereas printf is literally going to print it, not to paper, but to the screen.

所以当你有一个叫做GetSting的函数，它的意思是从用户那获得一个字符串-,提示用户输入一个字符串-,然而printf的确是用来打印的，不是在纸上，而是在屏幕上。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Here's my pro-- here's my function called main.

然后是main函数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选