And I've tried to turn to family, since extended relatives can perform the function of surrogate brothers and sisters.

同时我还试图让家人帮忙，因为大家庭里的亲戚可以代为发挥兄弟姐妹的作用。

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But it is not only the words and sentences of language that perform the function of building a bridge from person to person.

但起到沟通人与人作用的，并不仅仅是语言中的字和句。

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In a paper published in 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing proved that a digital computer could be programmed to perform the function of any other information-processing device.

1936年，英国数学家艾伦·图林在他发表的论文中证明，只要编程得当，数字电脑可以发挥其他任何信息处理设备所具备的功能。

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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