function words

基本解释

The researchers found that couples that used function words similarly were more likely to still be together later.
研究者发现，使用虚词风格相似的情侣更可能以后仍然在一起。
The group compared people's use of "function words, " which rarely carry any meaning on their own, but help build context in conversations.
研究小组对比了人们对“虚词”的用法——虚词几乎不表达它们自己的意思，但是有助于对话上下文的建立。
The study's authors found that people who used function words similarly were more likely to express romantic interest in seeing one another in the future.
该项研究的作者发现那些对虚词使用风格相似的人更可能表达对未来约会的浪漫意向。

In other words, now I know how to tell how the Helmholtz free energy changes as a function of temperature.
换句话说，我现在知道如何写出亥姆赫兹,自由能作为温度的函数。
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In other words, all of them are modes of communication with which we function, the intelligibility of which allows us to negotiate the world around us.
也就是说，它们都是我们应用的交流模式，帮助我们理解周围的世界。
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They start producing little, miniature sentences like "Want cookie" Or "Milk spill" and the function morphemes, the little words, "In," "Of," "A," "The," and so on start to gradually appear.
他们开始创造出短小的句子,比如"要饼干"或"奶洒了",而诸如"在内","属于","一个","这个"等短词的功能语素,也开始逐渐出现
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In other words, form follows function.
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英语
As function words, prepositions play a very important role in English.
作为功能词,介词在英语中扮演着十分重要的角色。
文学
虚字
虚词
Mainly is research on the pictophonetic character and the borrowing character; The third chapter is gramma,includes the research on the function words and the folds sound words.
主要是对象形字、假借字的研究。第三章语法，主要包括对虚词、重叠词的研究。