1. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. 亚裔美国人的父母是这个竞争激烈的器乐项目的热情支持者。
2. Instrumental ties are social links formed when we cooperate with other people to achieve some goal. 工具性联系是我们为了实现某种目标而与他人合作时形成的社会联系。
3. Instrumental ties predominate in secondary groups; we perceive people as means to ends rather than as ends in their own right. 工具性关系在次级群体中占主导地位；我们把人当作达成目的的手段，而不是目的本身。
4. Instrumental records do not go back far enough to provide us with reliable measurements of global climatic variability on timescales longer than a century. 仪器上记录的年代不够久远，因而无法可靠地提供一个世纪以前全球气候变化的测量值。
5. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support—financial aid, material resources, and needed services—that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems. 最后，其他人可能会给我们提供工具性支持——财政援助、物质资源和必要的服务——这可以帮助我们应对和解决问题，减轻我们的压力。
