suspended animation

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Exposure to a gas leak in an abandoned mine induced a former Army Air Corps officer to lapse into a form of suspended animation.
由于呼吸到了废弃矿井中的泄漏气体，一名前陆军航空队军官陷入了一种假死状态。
Tardigrades and rotifers — small invertebrates — are among those that have evolved the ability to go into suspended animation in tough times.
节肢动物和轮虫（一种小无脊椎动物）在条件恶劣的时代可以进入假死状态。
At the Global Seed Vault, hundreds of grey boxes containing seeds from Syria to Mexico were being moved this week into a freezing vault to be placed in suspended animation.
本周，在全球种子库，几百箱从叙利亚到墨西哥来的种子在假死状态下被移入一个冷冻库。

But thinking about suspended animation suggests that we may actually need a third category, suspended-- neither alive nor dead.
但是说到假死状态,我们就需要第三种可能了-,既不是死亡也不是生存。
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The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.
存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。
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Suppose we put somebody in a state of suspended animation, cool their body down so that the various metabolic processes come to an end.
假设我们让某人,进入假死状态，将他们的身体降温,所有的代谢过程都停止。
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The new suspended animation treatments take the opposite tack, slashing our oxygen needs to help us through a crisis.
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Suspended animation is a state in which an animal is unconscious, with its body functioning very slowly, for example so that the animal can survive the winter.
If you describe someone as being in a state of suspended animation, you mean that they have become inactive and are doing nothing.