Those only repeating words performed the same as those with no distraction, but those with the more complicated task showed even worse reaction times—an average of 480 milliseconds extra delay.

那些只复述单词的人与那些不分散注意力的人表现得一样，但那些任务更复杂的人反应时间更差——平均多出480毫秒的延迟。

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You can't fool around with the program as a distraction from the task you're supposed to be doing.

在这个程序中，你无法虚度光阴，从所应完成的任务中分心。

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One task drives web professionals to distraction more than almost any other: testing whether their design works equally well in a multitude of browsers and on different devices.

有一项任务最能驱使专家和业余爱好者，那就是：测试他们的作品是不是能在众多的浏览器和不同的设备上都能运行良好。

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All this is a distraction from the task of making the south of Kazakhstan more secure.

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But they may also come to be seen by recession-weary Venezuelans as yet another distraction from the task that Mr Chavez has shied away from: putting the country's moribund economy back on its feet.

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Indeed Mr Mendonca de Barros's swift departure was welcomed by markets as the removal of a distraction from the legislative task at hand.

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