Developers write code assuming the only task is to make it perform a function.

开发人员在写代码时，假定唯一的工作就是完成某个功能。

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Each Streams application is a series of operators that perform a function or calculation on the data that flows through it.

每个Streams应用程序都是一系列算子，对流过的数据执行函数或计算。

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A group of people officially delegated to perform a function, such as investigating, considering, reporting, or acting on a matter.

委员会受官方委托履行一种职能的一群人，例如对事情考察、研究、报告或采取行动！

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Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

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What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

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The return of his salary should remind us that we do indeed pay him to perform a function, one that he expands with every chummy photo op.

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Buehler says he saw evidence of that same concern for the average person when the head of a local chamber of commerce asked Guthrie to perform at a function.

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If you perform a specialized function within your office, you can distort the time it takes to get it done.

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