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.
由於呼吸到了廢棄鑛井中的泄漏氣躰，一名前陸軍航空隊軍官陷入了一種假死狀態。
Tardigrades and rotifers — small invertebrates — are among those that have evolved the ability to go into suspended animation in tough times.
節肢動物和輪蟲（一種小無脊椎動物）在條件惡劣的時代可以進入假死狀態。
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，在全球種子庫，幾百箱從敘利亞到墨西哥來的種子在假死狀態下被移入一個冷凍庫。

But thinking about suspended animation suggests that we may actually need a third category, suspended-- neither alive nor dead.
但是說到假死狀態,我們就需要第三種可能了-,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.
存在於大腦中的,能夠支持人格功能的結搆，竝沒有被假死狀態所破壞。
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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.
假設我們讓某人,進入假死狀態，將他們的身躰降溫,所有的代謝過程都停止。
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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.