We are much more able to "tune out" chronic background noise, even if it is quite loud, than to work under circumstances with unexpected intrusions of noise.

我们更容易忽略长期存在的背景噪音，即使它非常大声，而不是在有意想不到的噪音干扰的情况下工作。

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The source of this paradox is electronic anti-noise which creates sound waves to cancel out unwanted noise, such as rattles, blare, etc.

这种矛盾的根源是电子抗噪，它会产生声波来抵消不想要的噪音，如响尾音、刺耳的鸣响等。

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If you have the kind of job that requires you to be instantly available, wear a pair of noise-canceling headphones to drown out office chatter.

如果你的工作需要你随时待命，戴上一副抗噪音耳机，压过办公室中其他人的唠叨。

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While he points out that in our culture we feel very uncomfortable with the absence of words, with the absence of sound or noise.

他指出，在我们文化中沉默，让人不适。

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And the fact that we're always facing some risk of death recedes into the background in the way that most of us don't hear background noise-- that what jumping out of an airplane does for you is it spikes the risk of death.

我们一直面对的某些死亡的风险,这种情况下变成了背景声音,因为我们大部分人都听不到背景的噪声-,而跳下飞机带给你的,是死亡的风险上升。

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The US Army-funded research seems promising but is obviously still in its infancy -- one of the designs the researchers demonstrated is half the size of a penny but pumps out 120dB of noise (about the same as a siren), while another bumped out over 135dB, (which is roughly equivalent to a jackhammer).

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"People try to move a little bit out of the noise of the event, " O'Hara said.

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Someone who gathers as many sources as possible and extracts the signal out of the noise to produce a story.

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