And its function can be summed up as to include the function of meaning - expression, sentence-completion, and structuring the entire writing.

语气词在情态语气范畴中的作用可以归纳为表义功能、完句功能和篇章功能。

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Gazda also believes that it's been a mistake to dismiss the Roman copies as copies for copy's sake and not to consider the Roman function and meaning of the statues.

加兹达也认同将这些罗马雕塑复制品当作单纯的复制品且不考虑其本身所具有的罗马特色的功能以及意义而将这些复制品处理掉是一个错误。

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Notice that these are all non-semantic characteristics; that is, they have no effect on the meaning of the business function exposed.

注意，这些都是非语义性的特征；也就是说，它们不影响公开的业务功能的含义。

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But we are going to be spending a fair amount of time talking actually about the meaning and the function of Israel's purity laws and cultic laws in a later lecture.

但是接下来我们将花相当一部分的时间,讨论以色列纯度法律和祭仪法律的,意义和作用。

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It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

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It derives that meaning from its function as the foundation of the family.

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However, the team found that eventually both methods of memory retrieval were as effective in the tasks, meaning that while sleep deprivation affects brain function it does not affect overt behaviour, as previously thought.

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