All communication systems serve a purpose, a pragmatic function of some sort.

所有的通信系统都有一个目的，某种实用的功能。

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Turning to the purpose and function of the kites, they certainly had multiple uses.

说到风筝的使用目的和功能，它们当然有多种用途。

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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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If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

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Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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And again, a related problem that people run into is side-effects. You call a function and it returns a value, but maybe it, on purpose or on accident, modifies one of the actual parameters.

另外，一个人们常碰到的相关问题,就是副作用，你调用一个函数它返回一个值,但是故意或者无意的,它可能会修改一个实参的值。

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In the seconds before a stroke, duffers' eyes tend to dart around without purpose or function while elite players control their gaze.

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He also mentioned that the application should be optimized for the device through which it will be utilized and that the application should also be optimized to function very well for its intended purpose.

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That is its sole purpose, its only function.

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