Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity.

迪尔凯姆提出宗教信仰的作用是加强社会团结。

They developed collectives and established cultural centers that functioned as the public-relations arm of the Chicano sociopolitical movement.

他们发展成集体而且建立了若干文化中心，后者在墨西哥裔社会政治运动中作为公共关系力量发挥作用。

In these days the pre-industrial city in America functioned as a complex and varied organizing element in American life, not as a simple, homogeneous, and static unit.

在这些日子里，美国未工业化的城市在美国人的生活中是一个复杂而多样的组织元素，而不是一个简单的、同质的、静态的单位。

Race has functioned as something necessary to the construction of American character and quality in the creation of our national identity—American has been defined as "white".

在创造我们民族身份的过程中，种族对于美国人性格和品质的塑造起了至关重要的作用——美国人被定义为“白人”。

Think about how the team functioned.

思考团队是如何运行的。

On the other hand, scientists have had to explain how such creatures functioned.

另一方面，科学家还需要弄清这些生物的生存机理。

For about 300 years, from around AD 420, Britain's economy functioned without coin.

在从公元420年左右开始的约300年里，英国经济一直在没有钱币的情况下运行。

Spain functioned for years with high unemployment, but such a system won't fly now.

即便失业率高企，西班牙也正常运转了好多年，但这样的体系现在已经行不通了。

He explains how Yukos and Russia's oil industry functioned, but he goes beyond business matters.

他解释了尤科斯以及俄罗斯的石油工业如何运行，但却没说商业方面的事情。

As if this wasn't enough, the Greeks topped it off with a theatre, which has functioned ever since.

好像这还不够，希腊人还在上面建了一个剧院，至今还在使用。

But when they tried reversing the same seven mutations in AncGR2, the protein no longer functioned.

但当他们试着在AncGR2中扭转这7个突变时，蛋白质却不再具有活性。

As stated earlier, MediaWiki has functioned as more than a collaboration tool for many organizations.

如前所述，MediaWiki对于许多组织来说不仅仅是一种协作工具。

To date, it has functioned as a complete set of weather calendar to guide the agricultural production in China.

作为一部完整的农业气候历，在指导中国农业生产上发挥了较大作用，沿用至今。

Though phone signals were mostly dead (apparently to leave bandwidth for emergency services), the Internet functioned.

因为电话信号几乎完全瘫痪(很显然地需要应用宽带进行紧急救助)所以互联网的作用彰显无遗。

They facilitated conversations between various workers’ groups. They functioned like the Facebook page of their era.

他们在不同工人群体中促进沟通，他们的作用就像那个时代的脸书一样。

They facilitated conversations between various workers' groups. They functioned like the Facebook page of their era.

他们在不同工人群体中促进沟通，他们的作用就像那个时代的脸书一样。

In private they functioned like a married couple, sharing a bed, meals, movie nights and vacations with the children.

在私底下，他们就像水中鸳鸯，同桌吃饭，同床谁觉，一起看夜场电影，一起和孩子们度假。

Yes, there were some pretty cool frameworks before Flex, but most of them are not easy to use and not full functioned.

确实，Flex出现之前有很多很酷的框架，但大多数都不易使用并且功能不完全。

But Wright's conception has always functioned better than its critics have admitted, if never as well as he himself predicted.

但即使莱特的理念不像其本人预想的那样，它所发挥的作用也一向超出批评家们的认可范围。

The chemicals are all that is left from the Cold War when Dzerzhinsk functioned as principal production site for chemical weapons.

这些化学药品都是冷战时期的残留品，当时斯捷尔任斯克是化学武器的主要生产地。