It is thought that if the brain is busy focusing on many aspects of a task, then it has to spread its resources thinly, and pays less heed to time passing.

科学家们认为如果大脑忙于关注一项任务中的多个方面，那么它不得不分散注意力，这样就不太会注意到时间的流逝。

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Just as human meme machines spread over the planet, using up its resources and altering its ecosystems to suit their own needs, so the new teme machines will do the same, only faster.

正如媒母机器-人类散布到整个星球，利用资源和改造生态系统去适应他们自身的需求一样，新的teme机器也在做着同样的事情，而且更加快速。

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Foreign aid workers affirm that the government tries to spread its resources as widely as possible.

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Corporate Executive Board, for one, signs annual contracts with job sites, but overall, the firm tends to spread its resources among many sites, says Eric Coffey, head of corporate recruiting.

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Settlements allow the SEC to spread its limited resources among the largest number of cases, agency officials say.

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