From the hall the clock calling out the quarter hour, then a moment of stillness - time stalling - before, faintly, the clock in her study responded.

客厅传来钟表敲打刻点的声音，接下来是短暂的静止——时间的停止，直到书房里的钟表微弱地做出了回应。

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Don't forget to clock in and clock out.

不要忘了上下班打卡。

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So what happens in humans when something prevents the circadian clock from synchronizing with seasonal changes, or when something simply throws the clock out of sync with the outside world?

当有某种因素阻止人类生物钟随季节变化同步化，或某种因素简单的使生物钟脱离与外部世界同步化时，会发生什么情况呢？

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I run out of the house and then usually around 3 o'clock somebody points out, in one case a homeless man, that I have a big glob of shaving cream in my ear or-- because I neglected to actually look in the mirror while I shaved.

然后冲出家门,大概到了下午三点时，会有人跟我说，有一次是一个流浪汉，告诉我，我耳朵上有一团剃须膏-,因为我剃须时忘了,照镜子。

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One employee, Silvia Hernandez, recounted how she was finishing up her workday at another building and standing in line to clock out when she heard a blast.

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Curiously absent from this scenario was the fact that the players wear full uniforms with pads and protection, play a game under a time clock, out in the open, in front of family and fans.

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Gene Block, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues found that by middle age, the signal the master body clock in the brain sends out to other internal clocks to help resynchronize the different processes gets weaker.

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