He said he was close to a functioning prototype.

他说过很快就能做出雏型。

Hayes had a functioning prototype, which put them in the lead of that competition.

海耶斯成功研制了一个雏型，使他们在竞争中占了先机。

Chalmers observes that it is at least more plausible than earlier iterations of scepticism such as Descartes's evil demon, simply because we now have functioning prototypes (video games, VR) of how such a simulation might work.

查尔默斯观察到，这至少比早期的怀疑论，比如笛卡尔的恶魔论更可信，因为我们现在有了这种模拟可能如何工作的功能原型（比如电子游戏、虚拟现实）。

We took a high-level senior software engineer who could architect the full platform and then apprentices who could execute on that roadmap, and in 11 days, we had a functioning prototype.

我们聘请了一位可以构建完整平台的高级软件工程师，然后聘请了可以执行该路线图的学徒，在 11 天内，我们有了一个功能原型。