Even the Elf on the Shelf phenomenon, which has succeeded in commercializing Santa's disciplinary function, can be a little creepy, some experts say.
一些专家说，即使“货架上的小精灵”现象，已经成功地将圣诞老人的惩戒功能商业化，但可能有点令人毛骨悚然。
Naysayers might suggest that the brain is irrelevant, that thinking in an original, even revolutionary, way is more a matter of personality than brain function.
怀疑论者认为人脑与此是不相关的，他们认为以一种新颖的甚至是革命性的方式进行思考，是人的性格而非大脑功能所致。
Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.
研究人员蒂莫西·索尔特豪斯称，大多数人即使到了晚年，思维能力仍处于较高水平。
The technology is so fine-tuned then that even a non-sound, when carefully placed in a particular position, has been invested with a specific function.
这项技术是如此精细，以至于即使是一个无声的举动，小心翼翼地放置在特定位置时，它就已经被赋予了特定功能。
Not only are there differences in the level of the functioning of respiratory systems, there are even changes in how they function.
呼吸系统不仅在运作层次上有差异，甚至在运作方式上也有变化。
Some anthropologists have suggested that even the earliest shoes may have served a more symbolic than protective function.
一些人类学家曾提出，即使是最早的鞋，也有可能象征意义更多于保护作用。
Research has shown that the cup of coffee does give an individual a slight jolt, but even without the coffee, individuals can still function.
研究表明，一杯咖啡确实可以稍微激起人的活力，但即使没有这杯咖啡，人也可以活动起来。
But even without those signposts, most beginning programmers would have little trouble understanding the function of the code.
不过即使没有这些路标，大部分的初学者也不会有太大的困难来理解这些代码的功能。
Others are implanting electrodes in monkeys' brains to see if directly stimulating visual areas might allow even people with no eye function to see.
还有的研究将电极植入猴子的大脑里来检验直接刺激视觉区域是否可以让没有眼睛功能的人看到东西。
You are expected to use the new SYSIBM function path, even when you are not using the string unit argument.
希望您使用新的SYSIBM函数路径，既便您没有使用字符串单元参数也是如此。
Even if the IRR function finds an IRR, a project might have more than one IRR.
就算irr函数找到了一个irr值一个项目可能有更多IRR。
Closures are powerful because they enable inner functions to retain access to an outer function's variables even after the outer function has returned.
闭包功能非常强大，原因是它们使内部函数在外部函数返回时也仍然可以保留对此外部函数的变量的访问。
Adding berries to the diet may even help slow the decline in brain function that can occur with aging.
在饮食中加入浆果可以帮助降低大脑功能随年纪增长的衰退。
The first step before reusing anything, even a small function, is to check its documentation to see if there's a security warning about it.
开始重用任何组件之前，即使是很小的一个函数，我们要执行的第一个步骤都是检查这个组件的文档，从而了解其中是否提及了安全性警告。
These days Japanese girls have a variety of ways to make their eyes appear bigger. There's even a function to make your eyes so big when you have a photo taken.
日本女生有各种办法让眼睛看起来大一点甚至还有相机功能，可以让眼睛更大一点。
The XQuery where clause can consist of nested expressions of arbitrary complexity that can even include function calls.
XQuerywhere子句可以包含任意复杂的嵌套表达式，甚至可以包含函数调用。
Some of it was even thought to have no function at all, the equivalent of cellular junk.
而对于一些RNA，人们甚至还认为它们没有任何功能，就像细胞的无用物一样。
Even though arrays are mutable, the function equalize returns its array. This is useful if you only want to equalize a copy of the model.
即使数组是动态改变的，equalize函数照样可以返回它的数组。
You can even invoke Inline at runtime by using the Inline->bind function.
您甚至可以使用Inline->bind bind函数，从而在程序运行时调用内联。
Even so, this process makes a function call to FileStream.ReadByte and one to FileStream.WriteByte for most characters in the input stream.
即使如此，对于输入流中的大多数字符，该过程都会对FileStream .ReadByte进行函数调用，并且对FileStream .WriteByte进行函数调用。
Otherwise, Xalan can optimize away the invocation of the extension function and not call it even once.
否则，Xalan可能会优化掉扩展函数的调用，根本不会调用这个函数。
The use of namespaces can help identify what function or utility the code provides, or even help specify its origin.
使用名称空间可以帮助识别代码提供的函数或实用程序，甚至可以帮助指定其来源。
A closure "closes around" these references, so the function invocation can safely refer to the variables even when the variables have gone out of scope!
一个闭包封闭了这些引用，所以函数调用可以安全的引用这些变量，即使它们已经超出了函数的作用域。
However, even though I recognize the coolness of predictive indexing, my simple function does not bother implementing it.
不过，虽然我认为预定的索引很酷，但这个简单的函数并没有费心去实现它。
Fortunately these 128 combinations still function even though we now have a much wider color spectrum evocable via the HTML codes.
幸运的是即使我们现在通过HTML代码就能得到宽得多的颜色谱，但这128种组合仍然可用。
One important incentive for architects is to make sure that the entire enterprise ecosystem continues to function, even in the face of changing requirements and capabilities.
架构师的一个很重要的动机是确保整个企业生态系统可以正常工作，即使面对不断变化的需求和功能。
Clusters can function with a single repository and even limp along without any repository for short periods of time.
集群使用一个储存库就能正常工作，甚至短期内不使用储存库也能勉强维持。
Why not see if the scheme could handle its own decryption function, even while keeping the data secret, to remove enough noise to let the whole process continue?
为何不试试这种方案能否操作其自身的加密函数呢，即便数据是被加密过的，进而消除足够的噪声以使整个流程持续运转？
The actual spawning process itself will never fail, even if the function that you are calling does not exist.
实际的生成进程本身不会失败，即便您调用的函数不存在也是如此。
This introduces yet even more ways of defining timeouts as part of their higher level function.
这就带来了更多将超时定义为其更高级别的功能的一部分的方法。
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