Mycorhizae perform the function of nitrogen fixation and storage.

菌根起着固氮和贮氮的作用。

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We pretty much perform the function of an Operating System memory manager.

操作系统内存管理器的功能差不多就要完成了。

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When bus gets into trouble, it can perform the function of automatic switching to backup power supply.

当母线出现故障（过压或欠压）时，能够完成两组母线的自动投切，即备自投的功能。

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Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

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What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

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With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.

FORBES: Lighting up Nortel

Although more complicated to use than Napster, they perform the same function of allowing people to exchange music and other files with each other over the internet.

BBC: You are in: Business

It will turn them into essentially passive middlemen, who no longer appraise and control risk, but who merely perform the administrative function of doling out health care benefits.

FORBES: The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions - Part 3