What a particle tries to do generally is some crazy thing which doesn't have a name, but it's a function x of t.

一个质点的运动一般非常混乱,因此对应的函数没有名字,但它还是函数x

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Some stations also sound better than others, which is a function of how much audio processing that stations add to the music before it's broadcast.

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The development follows an Indian court order that went in favor of Ericsson, which had sued Micromax for using some of its patented technology to make mobile phones that function on the global system for mobile communications platform.

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The disparity is partly a function of Citigroup's overlapping and inefficient computer systems, some of which date to the 1970s.

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