clocks

1. N-COUNT 钟;时钟
   A clock is an instrument, for example in a room or on the outside of a building, that shows what time of day it is.
   1. He was conscious of a clock ticking...
      他听到了钟的嘀嗒声。
   2. He also repairs clocks and watches...
      他也修钟表。
   3. The hands of the clock on the wall moved with a slight click.
      墙上挂钟的指针走动着，发出轻微的咔嗒声。
   4. ...a digital clock.
      数字时钟
2. N-COUNT 考勤钟;上下班计时钟
   A time clock in a factory or office is a device that is used to record the hours that people work. Each worker puts a special card into the device when they arrive and leave, and the times are recorded on the card.
   1. Government workers were made to punch time clocks morning, noon and night.
      公务员早、中、晚都要打卡。
3. N-COUNT (汽车的)车速表，里程表
   In a car, the clock is the instrument that shows the speed of the car or the distance it has travelled.
   1. The car had 160,000 miles on the clock...
      里程表显示此车已行驶了16万英里.
   2. At 240 mph the needle went off the clock.
      车速达到每小时240英里时,里程表上的指针显示超出了最高时速。
4. VERB 达到(特定的时间或速度)
   To clock a particular time or speed in a race means to reach that time or speed.
   1. Elliott clocked the fastest time this year for the 800 metres...
      埃利奥特跑出了今年800米的最快速度
   2. The yacht swayed in 40-knot winds, clocking speeds of 17 knots at times.
      游艇在风速为40节的大风中摇摆前行，有时航速能达到17节。
5. VERB 为…计时;为…测速
   If something or someone is clocked at a particular time or speed, their time or speed is measured at that level.
   1. He has been clocked at 11 seconds for 100 metres...
      他100米跑了11秒。
   2. 170-mile-an-hour winds were clocked on a mountaintop in North Carolina.
      在北卡罗来纳州一处山顶测得的风速为每小时170英里。
6. VERB 注意到;看到
   If you clock something, you notice or see it.
   1. If there was any scandal in that company, you can be sure that Bobby will have clocked it.
      那家公司有任何丑闻，博比肯定会知道。
7. See also: alarm clock biological clock body clock cuckoo clock grandfather clock o'clock
8. PHRASE 与时间赛跑;争分夺秒
   If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.
   1. The emergency services were working against the clock as the tide began to rise...
      开始涨潮了，紧急救援机构正在争分夺秒地工作。
   2. It's now become a race against the clock.
      从现在开始要跟时间赛跑。
9. 提前完成任务
   If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended.
10. PHRASE 不分昼夜;日夜不停
    If something is done round the clock or around the clock, it is done all day and all night without stopping.
    1. Rescue services have been working round the clock to free stranded motorists...
       救援部门一直在日夜不停地工作，解救被困司机。
    2. We can't afford to give you around-the-clock protection.
       我们没有能力对你提供24小时的保护。
11. PHRASE 倒退;回到以前
    If you want to turn the clock back or put the clock back, you want to return to a situation that used to exist, usually because the present situation is unpleasant.
    1. In some ways we wish we could turn the clock back...
       在某些方面，我们希望能回到以前。
    2. We cannot put back the clock.
       我们无法让时光倒流。
12. PHRASE (通常指因不耐烦而)不断看时间，老是看钟表
    If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible.
    1. I started to watch the clock about halfway through the class.
       课大约上了一半，我就开始不停地看时间。

1. When we put the clocks forward in March we go into British Summer Time.
   3月份把时钟拨快后，我们就进入了英国夏令时。
2. Clocks never told the right time
   钟表显示的时间从来都不准确。
3. He also repairs clocks and watches
   他也修钟表。
4. Government workers were made to punch time clocks morning, noon and night.
   公务员早、中、晚都要打卡。
5. Ignoring feelings of tiredness knocks our body clocks out of kilter
   忽视疲劳感会打乱我们的生物钟。
6. Some pulsars keep time better than the earth's most accurate clocks.
   某些脉冲星发送脉冲比地球上最精确的时钟都准时。
7. The church clocks strike with a muffled sound.
   教堂的钟敲出低沉的响声。
8. Today, quartz crystal clocks are generally used on the seismograph stations.
   目前，地震台站一般采用石英晶体钟。
9. They placed very stable and accurate atomic clocks on regularly scheduled jet airliners.
   他们将非常稳定、准确的原子钟装在定期飞行的喷气式班机上。
10. Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.
    这家商店出售的大多数钟表都涂了发光漆。
11. All the clocks in the hall had been synchronized.
    并且大厅里所有的时钟被调整成了同步。
12. The earthquake stopped all the clocks.
    地震使所有的钟都停了。
13. Not alarm clocks or huge clock towers but street clocks.
    所说的并非是闹钟或是巨大的钟塔，而是街钟。
14. Clocks, straw sandals are all associated with death and funerals in China.
    时钟、草鞋等在中国都是跟死亡和葬礼有关的。
15. How can you tell clocks and watches are shy?
    你怎么说钟和表害羞了？
16. The clocks have been advanced one hour.
    钟已拨快了1小时。
17. We made clocks and completed a worksheet to practice telling time.
    我们制作了钟表，练习了报时并完成了学习表。
18. If all the clocks and calendars vanished, children would still know when Sunday came.
    即便时钟和日历都消失了，孩子们那时仍然知道星期天到了。
19. For example, time, which is measured with clocks and watches.
    例如，用钟和表来测量的时间是相对的。
20. Lots and lots of clocks and watches have gone wrong.
    大量的钟表都坏了。
21. Wives and mistresses have different clocks.
    妻子和情人的时钟大不相同。
22. Clocks and time have played a great part in defining the character of the Anglo-Saxons.
    时钟和时间大大说明了盎格鲁？撒克逊人的性格。
23. Bikes with lights, clocks, and computers.
    装有车灯，钟表和计算机的自行车。
24. Clocks carried by ships were checked and calibrated.
    服务包括检查和校准船上的时钟。
25. It should not be necessary to have two alarm clocks.
    要两个闹钟不是必要的。
26. After a while we have shifted their clocks.
    过了一段时间，我们已经改变了其生物钟。
27. About forty years later, minute and second hands were put on some clocks.
    大约40年以后，某些钟装上了分针和秒针。
28. Candles and water clocks helped people know how much time had gone by.
    蜡烛和水钟帮助人们知道过去了多少时间。
29. Produce software timer and stopwatch functions, but can also set a limit on the number of alarm clocks.
    生产软件定时器和秒表功能，而且还可以设置的闹钟数量限制。

noun

1. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up

   Synonym:    redstem storksbillalfilariaalfileriafilareefilariapin grasspin cloverErodium cicutarium