We call it a function. That is to say it has a function; it has a function within our understanding of the way in which a text has structure.

我们之所以称之为功能是因为它有功能;,我们文本结构的角度,去认识这种功能。

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It's the notion of what the function of that state is, I think, that is most striking.

我认为,这种关于城邦功能的观念,才是最为引人瞩目的

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You thought you knew what the built-in function sort did, method sort did.

你以为你知道这种内置功能,这种设备的作用。

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Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

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You're able to make the protein but the protein doesn't function properly.

肺上皮细胞可以表达这种蛋白,但其并不具有正常功能

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So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

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My son has a little robot that can do that.

我儿子的一个玩具机器人就有这种功能

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Dialysis - and this is a method to replace or augment the function of your kidneys, to remove waste products really from the blood, which is something the kidney does continuously.

透析技术,这种技术用来替代,或者增强肾脏功能,以去除血液中的各种废物,就像肾脏持续进行的那样

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