At the esoteric edge of the timekeeper's craft, they are too wobbly to keep time by themselves.

在这个原子钟的装置里，它们还是太不稳定了，不能靠自身确保时间。

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Some pulsars keep time better than the Earth's most accurate clocks.

有些脉冲星表比地球上最精确的时钟还准。

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That allows it to keep time very precisely.

这样就能使时间非常精确。

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The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

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I'll do so next time and probably in subsequent lectures because we're going to keep using these coordinates.

这点我们下几节课会讲到,下几节课我们会进一步阐述。

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All right? It's now something that I can search in constant time. And that's what's going to allow me to keep this thing as being log.

在固定的时间内搜索,这样就可以让时间复杂度保持在对数级,好的，考虑过了这些。

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Campbell said it's unlikely, but not impossible, that this official would keep time again during the regular season.

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Intense concentration swaps for giggles as one of the girls stumbles a fraction while trying to keep time with the heart-clutching melody of the song.

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Because I would sit with my dad when he would practice for hours and he would show me what every note meant, and he'd put a metronome on and he'd make me keep time with the metronome and he'd play notes and have me sing them back.

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