SSS 2009-07-31
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(七)月
You’ve heard of synchronized 1 swimming. But what about synchronized blinking 3? No, it’s not a new Olympic sport for slackers. It’s something that seems to happen when we watch a video. Because none of us want to miss the good parts.
If you stop to add it up, humans spend a lot of time not looking. We blink 2 every couple seconds, which means we lose about six seconds out of every minute of viewing time. So 10 percent of the time we have no visual information coming in. Yet we rarely notice this interruption of service.
That’s because we tend to time our blinks 4 so that we don’t get left in the dark. Or so says a report in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences. Fourteen people watched a couple episodes 5 of Mr. Bean. And it turns out they all tended to blink at the same moments: just after Bean finished doing something stupid or when the camera showed a long shot with nothing much going on. Such synchronized eye-shutting did not happen when the subjects watched a video of fish swimming around a tank.
So when we need to pay attention, we keep our eyes open. Until we see whether Mr. Bean gets through his holiday in one piece.
- Do not use the synchronized keyword in Managed Objects. 不要在管理对象上使用synchronized关键字。 来自互联网
- The timing of the gun was precisely synchronized with the turning of the plane's propeller. 风门的调速与飞机螺旋桨的转动精确同步。 来自辞典例句
- In a blink of an eye he had disappeared.一眨眼的工夫他就没影了。
- The boy disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye.一眨眼，这男孩就在拐角处不见了。
- Shut the blinking door! 关上那扇该死的门！
- Her ring is an odd little concern fitted with blinking diamonds. 她的戒指是装有许多闪光钻石的小玩意儿。