Those only repeating words performed the same as those with no distraction, but those with the more complicated task showed even worse reaction times—an average of 480 milliseconds extra delay.

那些只复述单词的人与那些不分散注意力的人表现得一样，但那些任务更复杂的人反应时间更差——平均多出480毫秒的延迟。

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You can't fool around with the program as a distraction from the task you're supposed to be doing.

在这个程序中，你无法虚度光阴，从所应完成的任务中分心。

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All this is a distraction from the task of making the south of Kazakhstan more secure.

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Indeed Mr Mendonca de Barros's swift departure was welcomed by markets as the removal of a distraction from the legislative task at hand.

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The Journal talked to Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who says it can take 23 minutes for a worker to get back to the task at hand after a distraction.

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