Thirty of them had been identified as having mild autism, a form also known as high-functioning autism.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.

这意味着，我们默认，有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.

存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the definition of autism has broadened so people with wide ranges of functioning are now diagnosed on the autism spectrum.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says criminalizing libel is pointless when there are functioning civil mechanisms to judge defamation and slander allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

We're left with the central banking institutions that are now functioning without convertibility to gold.

我们现在与那些,现如今运行时没有金子转换功能,的中央银行机构打交道。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Somalia has been without functioning government for 18 years, but is hoping to re-establish rule of law under recently-named President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

And often, people with autism who are otherwise very high functioning will fail this task.

在某些方面天赋异禀的孤独症患者,也会在该任务上失败

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

It's true that when you've got a corpse, you've got all the parts there, but clearly they're not functioning properly.

当你面对一具死尸时,肉体所有的部分的确都摆在那里,但它们显然无法正常运作

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Each species of turtle plays a very vital role in the whole ecosystem functioning."

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Well,you can't tell by thinking about the normal case, because the B-functioning and the P-functioning stop at the same time.

这从通常的例子中是研究不出来的，因为生理功能和人格功能同时结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Garwood says Gaza's health-care system also is not functioning as well as it could because Israel is preventing many medical professionals from leaving the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.

现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"So for instance, our relationships have been linked to lower blood pressure, better immune functioning, and even inflammatory processes that are implicated in a number of diseases."

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

That's why we said on the personality theory,as we went ahead in time, once the P-functioning stops,I don't exist anymore.

这就是为什么根据人格理论的说法，随着时间流逝，人格功能停止，我也不再存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Militants have said they will not disarm until the courts are fully functioning.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.

但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止，那就说明死者并非死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This can include people with asperger's syndrome who are highly functioning.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.

除开其他细节，死亡只是肉体的破坏，以至于不能再实施人格功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The leatherback turtles feed on jellyfish so they bring the balance - if they are not there, it means there will be a jellyfish explosion and that will not be good for the whole functioning of the marine environment."

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

But imagine that what's gone on is there's been decay of the brain structures that underwrite the cognitive functioning.

但这样设想一下,大脑的结构正在败坏,破坏了认知能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I mentioned the killings of journalists and I said that it is a matter of grave concern not just to the United States, but to the people of Russia, and not just to the activists, but to the people who worry that unsolved killings are a very serious challenge to order and to the fair functioning of society.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

So it turns out that during that period in which they were dead, they were only temporarily not P-functioning.

那么在他们死去的那段时间，他们只是暂时没有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When the body breaks some more, you get the loss of biological or B-functioning, and then the body dies.

身体继续损坏，身体功能也会开始消失，肉体就死亡了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.

假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

nd I am a body,then presumably the straightforward answer at least is going to be I die when my body stops functioning.

指的是我的肉体，那么最直接的答案,就是我的肉体停止运作的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Let's just suppose, as seems likely, that none of the P-functioning is occurring, at some point during sleep.

我们就这样设想一下，在睡眠的某个时间点上，没有任何人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So we're going to have to revise the P-functioning or the end of P-functioning theory of death.

我们要修改人格功能,或者人格功能的完结代表死亡这一说法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选