So it's quite an active process.

所以这是一个相当主动的过程。

Seeing is touching, an active process, not a passive one.

看到，便能有所了解，这是一个主动而非被动的过程。

To begin with, reading is an active process while watching TV is a passive one.

首先，读书是积极过程，而看电视是消极过程。

This active process also enhances our frequency selectivity.

有源放大过程也能增强我们对频率的辨识。

And it turns out that our hearing benefits from an amplifier, something called the " active process."

事实上，我们的听觉得益于一种扩音器，它被称为“有源放大”。

And, again, if the active process deteriorates, it becomes harder to carry out verbal communication.

同样的，如果有源放大的效果下降，言语交流将变得更加困难。

The active process enhances our hearing and makes possible all the remarkable features that I've already mentioned.

有源放大能增强我们的听力，并让我刚刚提到过的所有卓越性能得以实现。

And one wonders why the active process doesn't do the same thing.

你或许会纳闷，为什么有源放大不会发生同样的问题。

How does it carry out the active process and do all the remarkable features that I mentioned at the outset?

那么它是如何进行有源放大，并完成我开始时提到的所有非凡特性的？

Quiet inspiration requires muscular contraction and is, therefore, an active process.

平静吸气需要肌肉收缩，因此是一个积极的过程。

Forced inspiration and expiration require muscular contraction, and therefore, they're both active processes.

强迫吸气和呼气需要肌肉收缩，因此，它们都是活跃的过程。

These researchers say hair pigmentation is an active process, involving stem cells that travel up and down the hair follicle to produce pigment.

这些研究人员说，头发色素沉着是一个活跃的过程，涉及干细胞在毛囊中上下移动以产生色素。

First of all, the active process amplifies sound, so you can hear, at threshold, sounds that move the hair bundle by a distance of only about three-tenths of a nanometer.

首先，有源放大过程能放大声音，因此你能听见的最小声音可以低到让毛束移动仅 0.3 纳米。

Researchers today, however, understand sleep as a highly active process composed of very different types of rest - including REM, which in some ways doesn't seem like rest at all.

然而，今天的研究人员将睡眠理解为一个高度活跃的过程，由非常不同类型的休息组成 - 包括快速眼动睡眠，在某些方面看起来根本不像休息。

Earlier, I mentioned that artificial intelligence is not the right term for the current generation of what we have all come to call A.I. The word " intelligence" suggests that there is some active process of thought.

早些时候，我提到人工智能并不是我们现在所说的 A.I. 的正确术语。 “智力”一词表明存在某种活跃的思维过程。