These institutions have to be apolitical in order to function and to perform effectively.

要有效运转和发挥作用，这些机构就必须不牵连政治。

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In human societies violence has a social function: It is a strategy for creating or destroying forms of social order.

在人类社会中，暴力具有一种社会功能：它是一种创造或破坏社会秩序形式的战略。

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One of the benefits of switching to a functional style is the ability to leverage higher-order function support provided by the language or framework.

转换到函数样式的收益之一就是能利用语言或框架提供的高阶函数。

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This property of cells in culture is called anchorage dependence - that the cell needs to be anchored to a surface in order to function properly.

体外培养细胞的这种特性,称为贴壁依赖性--,意思是细胞必须固定在,某个表面上才能正常生长

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In addition, we recommend that the PCAOB make this in-depth analysis of audit failures an on-going function of the Board, in order to ensure that changes in policy and oversight practices are adopted in a timely fashion to address correctable weaknesses in the audit process.

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It is in the process of shutting down its inkjet printer operations in order to concentrate on the faster growing laser printer and multi-function device markets.

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But both parties have an interest in supporting the basic function of the CBO, in order to buttress their own credibility, and to get some empirically-generated sense of what the future might look like.

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