And the answer,she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system.

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So, if you look at any engineering system, the performance of that engineering system is a function of its design and its construction.

如果你们观察过工程系统，工程系统的性能就是,它的设计和构造的功能。

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