直到最近，他们才认识到森林在碳存储方面所起的重要作用。

Only recently have they come to see the vital part forests will have to play in storing carbon.

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人们提出了许多理论来解释食草动物，如浮游动物，在控制浮游植物高度集中地区的食草动物方面所起的作用。

Many theories have been formulated to explain the role of grazers such as zooplankton in controlling the excluded grazers from regions of high phytoplankton concentration.

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读者对文章成型所起的作用也就不见了。

Gone was the role of the reader in forming the text.

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Mendeleev is the one who taught us that the properties of the elements are a function of the atomic mass.

门捷列夫教授我们元素特性,是元素质量所起的功能。

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To speak both of Jove and of Christ is obviously in some ways to mix your metaphors and the effect can only be disorienting.

同时提到丘比特和救世主在某种方式上,很明显使人们对暗喻和其所起的作用感到迷惑。

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These proteins have functions that are essential for life of the cell, they transport molecules back and forth across the membrane.

这些蛋白所起的功能,对于细胞生存至关重要,它们负责转运分子通过细胞膜进出细胞

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