While apologies serve a useful function as a first step, we easily over-estimate the work they can do in repairing a relationship.

当道歉首先起到作用的时候，我们很容易高估了我们重新修复一段关系的能力。

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In some cases, a worm may perform an additional function outside of simple replication: it may serve as a deployment mechanism for an enclosed payload.

在某些情况下，除简单的复制功能外，蠕虫还可执行其他功能：作为一个封装的负载的部署机制。

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While Wikipedia is not usually billed as a catalog, my description should make it clear that it does in fact serve that function, and in a concept-oriented way.

人们通常并不觉得Wikipedia是一个目录，我的描述或许会让你明白，它不仅起着目录的功能，而且还是用基于概念的方式。

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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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