Its assumption is that punishments serve a function of determent.

这种偏见假定惩罚起起到威慑的作用。

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Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.

指纹有一个作用——它们可以为手指抓东西提供摩擦力。

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Hiccups no longer serve a function, but they persist without causing us harm-aside from frustration and occasional embarrassment.

嗝不再是作为一个功能器官，除了会引起小挫折和偶尔的尴尬外，他们不会造成其他任何问题。

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But they also serve another very important function, and that was the formation and maintenance of a differentiated ethnic identity or in Priestly parlance, the formation and maintenance of a holy peoples separated out from other nations by rules that mark her as God's people.

但是它们也有另外一个很重要的功能，这个功能形成并维护了,一个分化的种族身份，或者用神职人员的说法，这些规则促使了神圣民族的形成和保持,这个民族和其他的城邦区别开来，被标记为上帝的子民。

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All of us have taken them and they serve a function.

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Her looks are unique and stunning but, unlike most other yachts of her type, they also serve a function enabling her to cut through chop and blaze down the face of a following sea at high speed.

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Carry permits serve a function.

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