electric switch

基本解释

If he needed a surge of strength, he imagined throwing an electric switch to flood his muscles with power.
假如他体力透支，他会想像电闸一拉，能量洪水一样涌入肌肉。
By increasing or lessening the hours of darkness in each day, the scientists have been able to turn plant growth off and on like an electric switch.
用增加和减少每天黑暗小时数的方法，科学家已经能够控制植物生长，如同控制一个电器开关。
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At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light.
到了最下边一级台阶，我的手碰到一个电源开关，我打开它，一座安了十个红灯泡的大型吊灯架让地下室里一片红色。

Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first electric generator in Washington State powered by manure.

If he needed a surge of strength, he imagined throwing an electric switch to flood his muscles with power.
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On the other hand, this conflation makes far more sense in the long term, as our electrical grid becomes more sophisticated, and as electric vehicles begin the inevitable switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors — or some other renewable source of power.
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