Alvarez's experience demonstrates the importance of finding ways to diffuse stress before it threatens your health and your ability to function.

阿尔瓦雷斯的经历表明，在压力威胁到你的健康和工作能力之前，找到缓解压力的方法是很重要的。

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Acute liver failure occurs when your liver rapidly loses its ability to function.

急性肝衰竭发生在肝脏迅速失去功能时。

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An occasional restless night is nothing to worry about, but a continuous lack of ZZZ's can hamper your immune system's ability to function.

偶尔休息不好没什么好担心的，但是长期缺乏深度睡眠会妨碍免疫系统的正常作用。

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So, the mind gets destroyed when the ability of the body to function in that way has been destroyed.

所以,心灵也就伴随着身体,正常运作能力的毁灭而毁灭

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Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

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One of the things we said last time was, with that set of things, the ability to give values-- sorry, to give names to values-- the ability to make decisions, the ability to loop as a function of that, the ability get things in and out, we said that that actually gave us a language we said was Turing-complete.

上次我们和以上内容一起说过，我们可以赋值--抱歉,为数值命名--可以做出判断决定-,并且据此进行循环,可以输入输出数据,我们说拥有这些功能的语言,是图灵完备的。

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Some hoarders suffer from obsessions and compulsions that interfere with their ability to function normally.

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Demonstrated ability to function effectively at senior governmental and diplomatic levels, and ability to build collaborative partnerships and networks.

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But I am now able to look back and see how they destroyed my ability to function.

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