binary switch

基本解释

"We show that Sox17 acts like a toggle or binary switch that sets off a cascade of genetic events, " said Dr. Wells.
“我们的研究表明该基因（Sox17）就如同一个能引起遗传学级联事件（效应）的开关，”Wells博士说。
Two NIST researchers have demonstrated that this can be a feature, not a bug, in an elegant experiment that uses this growth to make a nanoscale binary switch.
在一次优雅的利用银生长制造纳米级二元开关的实验中，美国国家标准技术研究院的两名研究人员已证实这种现象可能成为一种特性，而不会成为一种故障。
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The Eclipse foundation too is working on support, with switch on strings, binary literals and underscores in number literals, Unicode 6.0, and SafeVarargs annotation already complete.
Eclipse基金会也正致力于提供JDK 7支持，在switch语句中使用字符串、二元字面值、数字字面值中的下划线、Unicode 6.0以及SafeVarargs注解支持已经实现了。