the notebooks are big, so it takes me four to six months to fill one up. i keep all of the old ones in a drawer.
这种笔记本很大,我需要四到六个月才能将一本用完,而那些用过的笔记本我都保存在抽屉里。
in practice, of course, a connectome will change over the course of time as new connections form and old ones die.
当然,实际上随着新的神经连接的形成和旧的连接丧失,一个神经连接组会因时而变。
i’m not so keen on the old ones and i sometimes get to like the young ones.
对那些老的,我就不那么热情;有时,我会喜欢上那些年轻点的人。
cell phone companies have been asleep at the wheel for years, loath to upgrade to expensive new networks when their old ones 「work just fine.」
移动电话公司打盹开车好些年了,在自己的老网「工作得很好」的时候,它们不愿升级到昂贵的新网络去。
perhaps the most telling case of one rule for new members and another for old ones has come with the single currency, the euro.
在加入欧洲单一货币,即欧元时新旧成员国所适用的不同规则或许是一个最耐人寻味的例子。
indeed, in some brain areas, there is continual turnover of neurons - old ones die and new ones are born - and these new neurons can participate in circuits that underlie learning.