on-off switch

常見例句

instead, it functions as the gene's on-off switch.
相反，它起著基因啟動-關(guān)閉開關(guān)的功能。
Scientists have developed an on-off switch in memory.
科學(xué)家已研制出一種記憶開關(guān)。
The device (a prototype is about the size of a deck of cards) connects to your TV and cable box, with an on-off switch for volume leveling.
這個(gè)設(shè)備(尺寸相當(dāng)于一副撲克牌大小)將你的電視和有線電視盒相連，并且?guī)в幸粋€(gè)開關(guān)來控制調(diào)節(jié)音量。
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So now it's not just that the on-off switch is stuck in off, the brain's no longer capable of engaging in these higher order P-functions.
所以現(xiàn)在看來就不是開關(guān)被卡住，大腦已經(jīng)不再有能力,實(shí)行這些高級的人格功能。
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Of course, to turn the on-off switch on is harder when somebody's in a coma.
當(dāng)然要開啟這個(gè)開關(guān)難度更大,當(dāng)人陷入昏迷。
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The cognitive structures are still there, but the on-off switch is switched to off.
認(rèn)知結(jié)構(gòu)仍然存在，只是開關(guān)還沒有被開啟。
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They seem only to care about where the on-off switch is located.
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All these mutations were done by physically changing the animals' DNA. It wasn't until Johns Hopkins' Beachy and his colleagues remembered reading about the Idaho lambs that they realized cyclopamine could be used as an easier on-off switch for the hedgehog pathway.
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If it all sounds too much, Mrs Kramlich points out that living with media art is really no different from living with fixed-image art. (The couple have works by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys in their mock-Tudor San Francisco home.) The difference, she adds with an eye to California's electricity troubles, is that you have an on-off switch—and when the images vanish, the house is an artwork of its own.
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