Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important.

诚然，这样做的目的是为了保护她免受被遗弃的危险，但实际上，它在当时的社会和家庭生活中的作用要重要得多。

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We cannot live with their current practices, but nor can we live without them; their function - assessing the risk of securities - is indispensable.

我们无法容忍他们现在的做法，但我们也不能缺少他们，因为评级机构评估证券风险的职能不可或缺。

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The development team cannot risk changing the core functions of the blogging system to add the mailing function.

开发团队不愿意为了添加邮件功能而修改博客系统的核心功能，因为这样做的风险太大了。

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They don't understand the risk management function of it.

人们没有意识到其所起的风险管理职能。

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There was a lack of controls for risk: "The risk function was a cardinal area of weakness, " and this was "a matter of design, not accident".

BBC: Carrying on banking

The utility of outside counsel as part of the risk assessment function varies broadly.

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The degree of regulation should be proportionate to the perceived risk of the new organism, which is a function of certain characteristics of the host plant, such as weediness, toxicity, ability to outcross, etc.

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