functional是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 功能的，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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted sex to revert to the level of the other appetites, to be regarded as a functional process, not as a fulfilment.
-- Let that work perfectly, let it produce a sufficiency of everything, let every man be given a rational portion, greater or less according to his functional degree or magnitude, and then, provision made, let the devil supervene, let every man look after his own amusements and appetites, so long as he interfered with nobody.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Standing before this abraded pile, the eye regarded its present usage, the mind dwelt upon its past history, with a satisfied sense of functional continuity throughout a feeling almost of gratitude, and quite of pride, at the permanence of the idea which had heaped it up.
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