switching off

基本解释

The Metropolitan police later revealed it had considered switching off social networks during the disorder in London, but had decided not to on legal advice.
大都会警方之后透露，警方已考虑在伦敦混乱期间断开社交网络，但最终在法律建议下决定不这样做。
A completely different approach is to use RNA interference, a relatively new technique for switching off individual genes by delivering short stretches of RNA.
另一种完全不同的方法是RNA干扰。它采用相对较新技术通过转录小RNA分子来关闭各别基因。
The extra energy required to do the data processing is outweighed by the energy saved by switching off the radio.
关掉无线电设备所节省了的能量的需求量比需要用来进行数据处理的额外能量要多。

Kinases can, in many cases, serve as a mechanism for switching a protein on or switching a protein off.
激酶能够,在很多情况下,能够激活一种蛋白或者关闭一种蛋白
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But when you start writing programs, especially when we get to web-based stuff where you want -- to check the user's input -- is it valid, is it an email address, -- and all these different scenarios -- it's actually often useful to be able to just enumerate them or rattle them off using this switching construct instead.
但是当你看是写程序时，特别是当我们,使用基于网络的东西，你想要,检查用户的输入-,它是合法的吗？它是不是一个电子邮箱地址？,所有的这些场景-,实际上它常常是有用的，当你用枚举结构列举它们,或者用它来快速地来说出它们。
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That means switching on genes relevant to a particular function, and switching off the others.
ECONOMIST: The first complete DNA sequence of an animal is now in the bag
His method acknowledges that the first duty of television is to prevent the ruthless viewer switching off.
ECONOMIST: Pacifier philosophy