These institutions have to be apolitical in order to function and to perform effectively.

要有效运转和发挥作用，这些机构就必须不牵连政治。

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Moreover, some have been found to have a valuable function in building up soil fertility.

此外，已经发现一些在提高土壤肥力方面有重要作用。

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Because many of those large satellites have ceased to function, the proposal recently been made to eliminate interference from nonfunctioning satellites by exploding them in space.

由于许多大型卫星已经停止运行，最近有人提议在太空中引爆这些卫星，以消除失灵卫星的干扰。

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"All genes are encoded by DNA and the DNA is present in the chromosomes in the cell nucleus and telomeres, they are the ends of the chromosomes and they have an important function to protect the chromosomes and maintain the integrity of the chromosomes."

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Now I got one just simple thing, and I simply have isolated that module inside of that function.What about abstraction?

而现在我只要做一件简单的事，那就是我只需把这个模块,加到函数中去？

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If you have a quantity which is constant over any closed path, that quantity is a thermodynamics state function.

如果有一个物理量,对任何闭合回路积分是常数，这个物理量就是一个热力学态函数。

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It used to be the mission of detecting ballistic missile attack against the United States....The warning function that we have relied on for theater applications, on other means, is now being done to a very large extent through space assets.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Summary of 'The Need For American Space Dominance'

The local currency is worthless, so swathes of public services have ceased to function.

ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

Greenwald: There are in the world two basic ways you control human behavior and have societies function.

FORBES: Intelligent Investing