Yet a new study suggests that even if the jaws and teeth of fossilised creatures look as if they are built to function in a given way, it does not mean that they actually did so.

但是一项新的研究提出了这样一种可能性：虽然生物化石的颌骨和牙齿看起来似乎是按照事先设计好的方式发挥功能，但是这并不代表他们实际如此。

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So I wrote a filter function that, given a node, determines whether it starts an XML island. Listing 2 shows the code.

于是我编写了一个过滤器函数，判断给定的节点是否启动了一个 XML 岛，清单 2 显示了该代码。

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Listing 6 creates a scalar function that extracts a given XML element from an input document and shows how this function can be invoked in a simple SQL query to return the name of a given customer.

清单6创建一个标量函数，它从输入文档中提取出一个特定的xml元素。然后，在一个简单的SQL查询中调用此函数，从而返回给定的客户的姓名。

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So the expression I wanna draw first of all is the best response of Player I as a function of S2 and we agreed that that was given by 1 plus 1/4 now, 1 plus 1/4 S2.

首先我们想要绘制的表达式是,参与人I的最佳对策是S2的函数,我们都知道它等于1+S2/4

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Also, given that both GDP and employment are a direct function of capital investment, our economy will not recover strongly as long as our corporate income tax is globally uncompetitive.

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