The working module: Form follows function

有效的模块：形式取决于功能

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After all, "Form follows function", says Merz.

毕竟，“形式要顺从功能。”梅尔兹说道。

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The debate over form follows function can be traced back to the 1890s.

关于外观服从功能的争论可以回溯到19世纪90年代.

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But al-Shabab, which follows an ultra-conservative form of Islam, opposes the moderate version of Islamic law the president and his U.N.-supported government are likely to put in place.

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For those of you who still do believe in the existence of souls I suppose you could take a great deal in discussions that follows as some form of large conditional or subjunctive if there were no souls then here's what we have to say.

如果你们有人,还是相信灵魂的存在,或者你可以从以下的讨论里,也学到一些东西,把讨论看成有条件性和假定性的,假设没有灵魂,然后就是我们要讨论的东西。

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In other words, form follows function.

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Lying abed, looking at the Emerald City of unfettered finance capital coruscating across the rooftops of the Victorian corridor streets that Le Corbusier and Howard so decried, I can appreciate that enacted here is the most important axiom of contemporary architecture - form follows finance.

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Decoration, after all, implies dissembling, something that would become anathema to the form-follows-function crowd.

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