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。

this would mean switching off refrigerators for a few minutes at times of high demand, or using plugged-in electric vehicles to store power.

这可能意味着在用电高峰时把冰箱关掉几分钟，或者使用插入式电动车储电。

「stupid guy,」 i muttered to myself, switching off the television.

「蠢东西，」我自言自语地咕哝道，关掉了电视。

by switching off their lights for 60 minutes at 8.30 p.m. local time, each of these men, women and children will send a powerful message that they want to change what「s happening to our world.

在当地时间的晚间8点30分，每一个男人，女人和孩子都将传递出改变地球现状的强烈信息。

the survey also looked at how good people from different countries are at switching off from the pressures of work while taking a break.

此外，调查还探究了不同国家的人在休假时摆脱工作压力的能力。

on switching off the light after reading 「war and peace」, edmund wilson, an american critic, would find his bedroom magically 「full of people」.

合上托尔斯泰的战争与和平>, 熄了灯,艾穆德·维尔甚这位美国批评家觉得卧室里仿佛「挤满了人」,心情迟迟无法平静.

she loved to hear me, often switching off the radio to beg me to sing it one more time.

她喜欢听我唱歌，常常关掉收录机，央求我再唱一遍。

now doesn」t that make you feel like switching off your broadband?

看到这是不是让你有了很想马上断掉你的宽带的沖动？

they are switching off at four years old and never switching on again.

他们要是在四岁这个年龄段即关闭了学习的兴趣，那就决不会再开启了。

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。

i remember switching off the lights before we left the room.

我记得我们离开房间之前把灯关上了。

switching off my pc, i noticed the time, 7.51pm.

关上电脑的时候，我留意了一下时间，是下午7点51分。

so keep that in mind when switching off the above monitoring features.

因此，当关闭上述监视功能时，请注意这一点。

four of the world「s five tallest buildings turned off their lights with the tallest, the 828-metre burg khalifa in dubai, switching off about half a million lights.

全球最高的五座建筑中有四座都参与了这项活动。全球第一高楼、高达828米的迪拜「哈利法塔」关掉了大约50万盏灯。

are people switching off the subject, particularly as we in the uk go through the coldest, snowiest winter for many years, and the media is full of stories about the climate sceptics?

你是否注意到近年来许多项目停滞不前，只因为英国冬天的酷寒和暴雪？ 你是否发现媒体也充斥着关于气候的怀疑论调？

from the noise of the text message alert to the skype conversation, modern communication tools have made switching off nearly impossible.

skype上信息提醒的铃声让我们随时留意他人的对话，现代沟通工具使得关机几乎成了不可能的事。

if possible, convey some ground rules to be followed during the discussion e. g. respect other」s opinion, switching off the cell phones, etc.

如果可能，在会议开始时宣布一些希望大家遵守的基本準则，如尊重别人的观点，关闭手机等。

she reacted to japan’s nuclear disaster by abruptly switching off seven of germany’s 17 nuclear plants.

对于日本核灾难，她突然做出回应：关掉德国17座核电站中的7个。

if you run a single-threaded application on a multi-core machine you might even make your application run faster by switching off all but your first core.

如果你在多核机器上运行单线程的应用程序，就要禁用除第一个核以外所有核的优化，这样会使应用程序运行得更快。

more than half the participants focused on conservation by curtailment: switching off the lights, changing thermostat settings and driving less.

超过半数的受访者认为减少使用是节能重点——例如关灯、调节温度器设置以及少开车。

many responded simply by switching off electricity supplies: in henan province, steel works were ordered to close for days, and power was cut to homes in towns and villages.

而对策往往只是简单地停止能源供应：在河南省，钢铁厂被命令停工数日，一些村镇民居的电力供应也被切断了。

south korea「s civil servants have been ordered to do their public duty by switching off the heating and donninglong johnsas the severe cold puts a strain on power resources, according to officials.

据一些韩国官员说，韩国政府要求公务员履行公职，关掉暖气，穿上秋衣秋裤，以应对严寒天气造成的电力资源紧张的局面。

if your xclock examples don」t look like the ones in this article, you may want to try switching off desktop effects for a while.

如果您的xclock例子与本文的不同，您可能要关闭桌面效果一段时间。

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。