Communication is a basic function of language.

交际是语言的基本功能。

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Archive is a tool to load and spread social memory. To participate in construction of social memory is a basic function of archives.

档案是承载与传递社会记忆的工具，参与社会记忆建构是档案馆的基本职能。

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Accounting supervision is a basic function of accountants entitled by law and accounting service is the aim and result of accounting work.

会计监督是法律赋予会计人员的一项基本职能，会计服务是会计工作的目标和归宿。

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As I said, what we want to do is, we want to count the number of basic steps it takes to compute a computation as a function of input size.

我刚才提到了，我们要建立，一个根据输入大小的方法来计算,一个计算过程需要的时间,建立这个方法需要几步呢？

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"Immigration reform will strengthen our nation's security by helping us identify exactly who has entered our country and who has left -- a basic function of government that our broken immigration system is incapable of accomplishing today, " said South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Arizona's John McCain.

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It figures that using less water and energy to execute a basic household function, while looking cool doing it, works pretty well for consumers.

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According to Ben, only Atari 2600 and Colecovision games are supported for the time being, although emulation of other systems will apparently be possible through software upgrades (it'll also function as a basic PMP).

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