1·They can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking.
他们可以在大脑的“工作记忆”区同时处理几件事，这是这个多任务时代的一项基本技能。
2·You know what the summer antidote to multitasking is?
你知道夏天多任务的解毒剂是什么吗？
3·But to enjoy features such as multitasking and hardware abstraction, nearly everybody USES an OS of some kind to run their programs.
但是要使用多任务和硬件抽象等特性，几乎所有人都会使用某种类型的操作系统来运行他们的程序。
4·I often tell executives to stop multitasking.
我经常告诉高管们停止多任务。
5·Programs produce sets of equations - describing the role of rainfall on a desert plateau, or air pollution in triggering asthma, or multitasking on cognitive function.
各种程序生成了不同的方程组——描述沙漠高原降雨量的作用，或触发哮喘的空气污染，或认知功能的多任务处理。