这些药物对感染没有起作用。

The infection did not respond to the drugs.

《牛津词典》

虽然我妈妈总是说，“你是我们家珍贵的宝贝。”但这并没有起作用。

Although my mother always said, "You are the precious baby in our family," it didn't work.

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大型的美国银行并没有起作用。

The big American Banks are not functioning.

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So it's almost as if functions really are useless because they have no ultimate effect.

所以几乎是函数是没起作用的,因为它们没有最终的效果。

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Now one other thing that Hirsch says, the other thing that I quoted, is in effect ] -I'll paraphrase now-- that what Gadamer omits to realize is that there is a difference between the meaning of a text and the significance of a text.

赫施说的另外一点，即我引用的另一点，现在起作用了,我现在开始来释意-,葛达玛没有发现的是,文章的含义和文章的意义之间的差别。

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The big American banks are not functioning.

大型的美国银行并没有起作用。

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