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hardwired 硬連線 硬連線 hardwired固線式; 硬接線的 hardwired固線式 hard- wired \ hard"- wired"\, hard wired \ hard" wired"\( h[ aum] rd" w[ imac] rd"), a. 1. ( Computers) Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device, and not changeable by programming; -- of functions; as, error correction is hard- wired into the circuit of the disk drive, so it proceeds very rapidly. [ PJC] 2. Connected by a continuous electrical wire, rather than through a switch; as, the air- conditioner was hard- wired into the wall circuit, so moving it would require an electrician. [ PJC] 3. ( Metaph.) Performed by an inborn pattern of neural circuits; instinctive; not learned; as, many bird songs are hard- wired, but some are learned. [ PJC] People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are " hard wired" to do good in order to enhance their own happiness. -- Andrew Delbanco ( New York Times Magazine, May 7, 2000; p. 46). [ PJC]
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