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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The purpose and function of those internal tables is to keep track of shared-memory resources status and usage such as buffers, chunks, dbspaces, transactions and so on.

那些内部表的目的和功能是为了记录共享内存资源的状态和使用，例如缓冲区、块、dbspace、事务等。

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The purpose and function of the city night environment are to provide space for citizens' night life.

城市夜空间环境形成的目的和作用是为市民夜生活提供场所。

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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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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 Trust , Fukuyama examines the cultural values that enable people to work together toward a common purpose and thus make these markets function.

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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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Designed to perform just one function, these chips do it faster and are less expensive than their all-purpose brethren.

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