But there is no doubt that besides removing dirt of all kinds, they subserve other functions; and one of these apparently is defence.

但毫无疑问， 除了去除各种污垢外， 它们还具有其他功能； 其中之一显然是防御。

This unexpected stand she was making for his interests was winning his admiration to such a degree as to be in danger of defeating the very cause it was meant to subserve.

她为他的利益所做出的这种意想不到的立场赢得了他的钦佩， 以至于有可能破坏它本应维护的事业。

Absolutely not. My colleagues and I are mapping the neurological substrates that subserve global information processing, which is required for all cognitive reasoning, including scientific inquiry, making my research ipso facto prior in the ordo cognoscendi.

绝不我和同事们正在绘制神经基质 有利于促进全球信息处理，这种研究既要求认知推理也包括科学探索 由此事实可见 我的研究在认知序列上更高一层。