1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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”。
5. Think about how the team functioned. 思考团队是如何运行的。
