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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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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