So, if you look at any engineering system, the performance of that engineering system is a function of its design and its construction.

如果你们观察过工程系统，工程系统的性能就是,它的设计和构造的功能。

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We started to innovate, come up with all kinds of features that attract the Chinese Internet users.

不断创新，设计出各式各样的新功能,来吸引中国的网民。

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As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

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Sometimes you can design drugs that act like a natural ligand without being the natural ligand.

有时你能设计具有天然配体功能的药物,但它不一定和天然配体相同

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