While they were in the brain-scanning machine, they were asked to do tasks that required concentration and attention.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

One, we can train them to perform these elaborate eye and arm movement tasks as you are seeing here I will describe.

第一，我们可以训练他们去完成眼睛和手臂运动等精细的动作,正如我要介绍的那样。

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And your boss can ask you, "Will you be able to complete these tasks on time?"

你的老板可能会问你，“你能准时交付这些任务吗？”

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"This program is designed to improve strength, balance and flexibility so that every day living tasks become easier."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

And, in support of the second alternative, even adults find these tasks involving lying and deception more difficult.

即使成年人也会发现,包含谎言与欺骗的任务要更加困难,这支持了第二种观点

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The Endeavour mission includes plans for five space walks to install the Japanese science module and perform other tasks at the space station.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

and your only job during this tasks is to press the button when that target comes on before it leaves the screen.

而你在这些任务中唯一要做的事,就是在目标出现未消失前按下按钮。

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But,he said the tasks exceed the capacity of the United States alone and that collective efforts, are needed including by critics of past U.S.policy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

More gloriously, we could imagine building some kind of a robot that does a variety of tasks.

说得再远一点,想象我们正在开发机器人,那种可以执行各种任务的机器人

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Even such simple tasks as collecting rainwater have been nearly impossible given the poverty and devastation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

The teaching fellows have already sent you contact information and a list of the sort of tasks that they're going to be coordinating, but these are all graduate students in psychology and they'll be assisted by several people working with me at the Rudd Center, and all together we have a really terrific team.

几位助教已经把他们的联系方式,和任务清单发给了你们,到时候将由他们协调研究安排,他们都是心理学的研究生,我在路德中心的,几位同事也会协助他们,我们是个非常棒的团队

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Christian Rossiter has said that he felt like a prisoner in his own body, unable to move or carry out the most basic of tasks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Because this is overloading that multiplication operator with two different tasks.

因为这会造成使得乘法操作符,对两种不同的任务造成重载。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It takes a lot of different tasks to win a hockey tournament like that,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Their memory improved, and they persisted more on difficult tasks.

他们的记忆力得到改进，面对困难任务时更有持久力。

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Students like Shelia Melvin say they are hoping to use their newly mastered computer and Internet skills to do such basic tasks as apply for a job online.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

We make more mistakes than tasks that don't involve lying and deception.

相对于不包含谎言与欺骗的任务,我们犯下的错误会更多

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"We had been training long and hard for the mission, and we knew the baby was coming so it was easy to go on and do my tasks,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Typically--I don't know for those particular children, but typically on those tasks three-year-olds and young four-year-olds tend to fail, and around the age of four or five kids tend to succeed.

我不太了解那些特定儿童的情况,但一般来讲,三岁和刚进入四岁的儿童,通常会在这些任务中失败,而四岁或是五岁左右的儿童则通常会成功

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Computer programmers already have created thousands of applications for the iPad that will allow customers to perform many other tasks previously done on regular laptops or on mobile phones.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

It's not moving randomly, but the tasks are all controlled by the CPU within the robot.

它不能随机移动,所有任务都由机器人里的CPU掌控

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In blunt terms,the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report says Britain's military mission in Afghanistan has failed to deliver what it promised, because troops are being asked to do too many different tasks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

"These are dangerous tasks." "There are still those with bombs and bullets who will try to stop Iraq's progress, and the hard truth is we have not seen the end of American sacrifice in Iraq."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

"We are going to determine how much food and other products of daily use are needed, whether an international crew is compatible, how people of different cultures, of different training can find common language and work on performing their tasks."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Besides the actual performance, they look at how long it takes the soldiers to complete their tasks, since time can make the difference between survival or death for those who are lucky enough to be alive after the nuclear blast.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"When we plotted the circuits in the brain against their childhood lead blood lead levels, we found that those with a higher blood lead measurement had less activity in the part of the brain normally left to do the attention tasks,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

"As we train Afghan security forces to get them to take over the tasks and the responsibilities of Afghanistan, and I am saying what President Obama and the other leaders have said, then we will be able gradually to bring out forces home,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"Nearly every introductory text book, as well as people practicing in the field in speech pathology, for instance, teaches and believe that there is a separation of tasks and a division of labor between two very different parts of the brain, Broca's area and Wernicke's area , where Broca's area is responsible for producing,for speaking, and Wernicke's for comprehending,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28