function是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 职责, 作用, 正式社会集会 vi. 起作用, 运行，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This touched Young Jerry on a tender place; who adjured his mother to perform her first duty, and, whatever else she did or neglected, above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of that maternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his other parent.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The results obtained from this quantitative study permit the statement that the percentage of inactivation, as measured by determining the units of bacteriophage remaining after irradiation by gamma and beta rays of a suspension of fixed virulence, is a function of the two variables, nillicuries and hours.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He also had his theory of marriage, according to which the breeding of people was man's lower function, his higher function consisting in conserving life already existing.
-- Bachelors, according to him, were the same phagocites whose function was to help the weak, sickly parts of the organism.
-- And true to his convictions, he had been performing this function since he became convinced of the truth of the theory, although as a youth he had led a different life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The principal function of this retainer was toquarrel with the cook; in which respect he was a perfectWhittington, without his cat, or the remotest chance of being madeLord Mayor.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, one excellent result of her general apathy was the long-delayed installation of Oak as bailiff; but he having virtually exercised that function for a long time already, the change, beyond the substantial increase of wages it brought, was little more than a nominal one addressed to the outside world.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett could not imagine her mother's handswithout her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life wasto remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the housesuperintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything in the world has its function, and is good or not good in so far as it fulfils this function more or less perfectly.
-- In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a question of which function you are brought up to and adapted to.
-- And the function determines the individual.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harassed by these thoughts, he now began to wish the marriage over, Gowan and his young wife gone, and himself left to fulfil his promise, and discharge the generous function he had accepted.
-- The Chief Butler, who up to this time had limited himself to a branch of his usual function by looking at the company as they entered (and that, with more of defiance than favour), put himself so far out of his way as to come up-stairs with him and announce him.
-- Hearing that I was your professional adviser, he declined to interpose before my very limited function was performed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I say, that in any creature breathing is only a function indispensable to vitality, inasmuch as it withdraws from the air a certain element, which being subsequently brought into contact with the blood imparts to the blood its vivifying principle, I do not think I shall err; though I may possibly use some superfluous scientific words.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bad and irregular eating was weakening every function of his body.
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