Its siren call (or beep, or blinking light) can crowd out the time and energy we have for real human connection.

它的警笛呼叫(或嘟嘟声，闪烁灯)往往会挤占我们本可以用来进行人际交往的时间和精力。

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The others were termed "minimally conscious," meaning they were intermittently able to respond to commands by moving or blinking.

其他人属于“微意识”，即他们能间歇地用动作或眨眼来应答。

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Is he thinking, blinking, or sleeping on it?

他是在思考、眨眼还是在上面睡觉？

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They plan to equip handsets with a large light emitting matrix to generate scrolling or blinking symbols recognizeable up to four meters away.

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Students said it helped in daily life, too, enabling them to read people by detecting the slight hesitation or rapid blinking that signals a bluff.

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Engineers could control which bits of the eyes were illuminated in a specific colour, to make the toy appear as if it was rolling its eyeballs, blinking, or showing two small throbbing hearts.

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