City Hall said an official function on Monday to mark the flame's progress through Paris en route to the Beijing Games had been scrapped.

市政厅在星期一说一个官方的功能经过巴黎为火焰的进步作标记在去北京游戏被扔弃的途中。

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Since then, photograph after official White House photograph has shown the Obamas gazing into each other's eyes while performing one or another official function.

自那以后，除了白宫官方照片，从其他的照片里能看到奥巴马夫妇在履行一个又一个职责时两人相互凝视的眼神。

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Some nations use English as their official language, performing the function of administration; in others it is used as an international language for business, commerce and industry.

一些国家用英语作为官方语言，并用它履行行政职能；而在其他国家，它被用作商业、贸易和工业的国际通用语言。

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As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

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How, though, can all this modernisation be squared with the maintenance of what every senior official says is the capital's great quality, its function as the ancient vessel of Chinese history and culture?

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