Nursery schools should fulfil the function of preparing children for school.

幼儿园应该起到为儿童进小学作准备的作用。

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School is not in session. But in the current state of limbo gripping eastern Libya, or "Free Libya, " as some are calling it, the Aruba School is serving a different function.

学校停课，在动乱笼罩东利比亚（或如某些人所称—— “自由利比亚”）的状况下，该学校当前在执行不一样的职能。

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"With their myriad clients the big trading Banks in effect function as CCPs already," says Darrell Duffie of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "Why double their number?"

“实际上，因其庞大的客户数量，大型商业银行已经有着和集中交易对手一样的作用，”斯坦福大学商业研究生院的Darrell Duffie谈到，“为什么要让它们的数量变为两倍呢？”

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The most salient feature of the Deuteronomistic School is the conviction that Israel's residence in the land is a function of its obedience or disobedience to the covenant with Yahweh.

申命记学院派最突出的特点是,它认为以色列能居住于土地是因为,他顺从上帝，或者说是不遵从与耶和华的契约。

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Just over a year ago, my wife wrote a small check for an end-of-the-year school function of some sort.

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If success in school is a function of intelligence and hard work, and less intelligent students have to work harder to achieve the same grades as their more intelligent counterparts, only hard work seems to matter in predicting career success.

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Furthermore, the fx-CP400 features a variety of functions designed to help students learn and instructors teach at school, including a USB mass storage function for quick and easy data transfer, and compatibility with Casio data projectors to enable the calculator's display to be projected on a screen.

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