The technology is so fine-tuned then that even a non-sound, when carefully placed in a particular position, has been invested with a specific function.

这项技术是如此精细，以至于即使是一个无声的举动，小心翼翼地放置在特定位置时，它就已经被赋予了特定功能。

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A whale's muscles and non-vital organs are able to function without oxygen for an extended period of time.

鲸鱼的肌肉和非重要器官能够在长时间缺氧的情况下正常工作。

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It also shows how much more lethal metastasic and non-function tumors—of the type Jobs is believed NOT to have had, at diagnosis—can be.

该表也显示确诊是，乔布斯可能不会有更致命的转移和非功能肿瘤。

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If you run these curves only on non-smokers you get rid of that J at the end of the curve and you get pretty much a function that's to the right of the curve here.

如果仅在不吸烟人群中做统计,那么左末端就不会出现J形曲线,而是会得到一条,从左到右逐渐上升的完美的函数曲线

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Perhaps the most novel non-gaming function of the tablet-esque controller is its IR-based universal remote control ability -- the GamePad can be used to control your HDTV (well, "most" HDTVs) in some basic, but very important, ways.

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In tests on seven people with nocturnal asthma, 13 non-nocturnal asthmatics and 11 non-asthmatics, lung function tests revealed that patients with nocturnal asthma had the highest levels of melatonin and the greatest drop in lung function overnight.

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Such non-practicing entities function as invention houses that conduct brainstorming sessions or continue to invest in developing specific technical innovations, with the patents based on those innovations becoming the source of revenue for the entity.

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