"It's like the on-switch is stuck," said Dr.Paul Chapman, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York and lead author of the study.

“这好比是把开关给粘上了一样，”保罗·查普曼，来自纽约斯隆·凯特琳中心，是本实验的首席研究员。

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"It's like the on-switch is stuck," said Dr. Paul Chapman, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York and lead author of the study.

“这好比是把开关给粘上了一样，”保罗·查普曼，来自纽约斯隆·凯特琳中心，是本实验的首席研究员。

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The heating is on a time switch.

暖气靠定时开关自动供热。

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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.

所以现在看来就不是开关被卡住，大脑已经不再有能力,实行这些高级的人格功能。

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Of course, to turn the on-off switch on is harder when somebody's in a coma.

当然要开启这个开关难度更大,当人陷入昏迷。

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Imagine I have a little lamp, a little goose- one of those little gooseneck lamps, I'd put it on the table here, I'd put the height about a f-- about a foot off the table. And if I was really good, - I could hit, or time it so that when I hurt- yeah, try again. When I turn this on switch on in the lamp, at exactly the same time, I'm going to hit a key on my computer and start it running.

想象下我有一个那种小雁颈台灯-,我把它放在桌子上，大概离桌子，有一英尺那么高吧,这样挺好的，我可以打开-,或者关闭这灯,并在这同时，我可以让我电脑,开始运行。

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As Moore's Law (computing power of a chip doubles every 18 months) continues to unfold and as bandwidth capacity continues to explode, just-turn-on-the-switch, easy-to-use high-tech appliances for specific functions will proliferate.

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The earpiece has an on-off switch, a three-stage volume control and uses a rechargeable battery.

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With a mechanical keyboard, on the other hand, each key press triggers an actual on-off switch a feeling as solid as flicking on the lights.

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