The noise was quite disruptive at first, but after about four minutes the subjects were doing just as well on their tasks as control subjects who were not exposed to noise.

起初，受试者会被噪音扰乱，但大约四分钟后，他们在任务中的表现与未受噪音影响的对照组受试者一样好。

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He says that brain change is strongest when a) you are interested in and like what you are learning, b) you are in control of what you learn and c) you get challenging tasks that make you think hard.

他说，当你 a）对你正在学习的东西感兴趣并且喜欢它，b）你能控制你所学的东西，c）你接受有挑战性、让你努力思考的任务时，大脑的变化是最剧烈的。

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Configuration management consists of four separate tasks: identification, control, status accounting, and auditing.

配置管理包括四个独立的任务：识别、控制、状态会计和审计。

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In the jet lag period immediately following the time difference, they had trouble learning simple tasks that a control group easily mastered.

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But many are also too small to cope with tasks like disease control or watershed management, or to sustain any oversight in the form of local media or pressure groups.

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The pattern began in the 1950s, when hugely expensive mainframe computers were first used to save correspondingly huge sums in information-intensive functions in the financial-services industry, then in accounting, payroll and inventory-control tasks in other big organisations.

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