Lysozyme is a protein that is part of the human immune system; when functioning properly, it punctures the cell wall of an invading bacterium and destroys it.

溶解酵素是一种蛋白质，它是人类免疫系统的一部分；由于功能正常，它可以刺破入侵细菌的细胞壁并毁灭它。

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Their job satisfaction, too, can surge when well-functioning machines relieve them of dull tasks or repetitive processes.

当运转良好的机器将他们从枯燥的工作或重复的过程中解脱出来时，他们的工作满意度也会飙升。

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What is said to happen when IT is functioning properly?

当 IT 系统正常运转时，会发生什么？

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He says criminalizing libel is pointless when there are functioning civil mechanisms to judge defamation and slander allegations.

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When the body breaks some more, you get the loss of biological or B-functioning, and then the body dies.

身体继续损坏，身体功能也会开始消失，肉体就死亡了。

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nd I am a body,then presumably the straightforward answer at least is going to be I die when my body stops functioning.

指的是我的肉体，那么最直接的答案,就是我的肉体停止运作的时候。

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In a study published in October in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that the participants no longer selectively considered just the positive information when the functioning of that part of the brain was disrupted with electric current.

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But Congress is the real power in Ecuador, at least when it has a functioning majority.

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Yet Drexel's collapse, which happened when the market was functioning normally, did not put the financial system or the economy at risk.

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