Transport 's early function was to meet the basic need of hauling food supplies and building materials.

运输氏早期功能是满足牵引粮食供应和建筑材料的基本需要。

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And henceforth I'm gonna start calling these tools, these monickers that I can use as building blocks in my own program, it's gonna be called a function as we'll see.

从此以后，我将在我的程序里把这些工具，称为我们可以用来写代码的组件,在我自己的程序中，我们将了解到它被叫做为一个函数。

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"It's a building with no function, that has no program, " Libeskind says.

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As part of the plans the cathedral also said it wanted to renovate its gardens and remodel the building's interior, while retaining its primary function as a place of worship.

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But the Merck-bound scientist's main interest has been in the structure and function of proteins, the building blocks of all living things and the basis for most drugs.

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