Before Friday, my automatic response would have been to turn around, maybe even move a little closer.
假如是在星期五前，我的第一反应就是转过身，也许甚至会靠近他一点。
2
I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。
3
Setting this value closer to 1 favors the discovery of many near-periodic patterns and the automatic generation of periodicity hints.