The mizzen sail functions much like a second mainsail.

航行中后桅帆基本上就像第二面主帆一样工作。

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A socket functions much like a named pipe but can span hosts.

套接字的功能与命名管道很相似，但是可以跨主机。

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The gets command functions much like the basic get command.

gets命令的功能类似于基本的get命令。

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And one of the ways you can make a program crash, intentionally or not, is to essentially use up too much memory or call too many functions and what happens is, bam, one hits the other and bad things happen.

其中一个方式能使你的程序崩溃掉，有意或无意的,它本质上使用了太多的内存,或者调用了太多的函数，所发生的，崩掉，一个冲突了另一个，然后发生了坏事情。

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So it's very much the name of functions that denote or connote their behavior.

所以很大程度上函数的名字指明了,或暗示了它们的功能。

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He doesn't so much insist as you will see in your reading on the actual separation of functions of government putting them into separate hands.

但他其实并未坚持,如你们在阅读中会发现,政府的职权,是否真的分离,将权力切割开来。

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The concept is certainly familiar, and functions in much the same way as a QR code, generating flashing light that's invisible to the human eye instead of a cumbersome 2D square.

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StackAR, the second project, functions in much the same way, but instead of outputting a countdown indicator, it displays schematics for a LilyPad Arduino when placed on the tablet, identifying connectors based on a pre-selected program.

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High-price PC-based premium portable models can now perform cardiology, radiology, and obstetrics functions that once required much more expensive machines.

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