He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp.

他一把抓起听筒，空着的手则摸索着找床头灯的开关。

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When children saw this they did not imitate the behavior, instead they just pressed the lamp switch with their hands.

当小孩子们看到了这一幕，他们不会模仿这一行为，反而直接用手按下台灯开关。

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When he flicks the switch and turns on his lamp, a sensor on his desk downloads music tracks digitally encoded within tiny flickers in the lamp's light.

当他轻按开关打开他的台灯时，灯光在细微闪烁中通过他桌上的传感器，并使传感器下载数字编码的音乐歌曲，然后音乐从附近的一对扬声器里传出来。

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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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