It was the fact that this machine informed people of the time by clanging away on a bell that got it to be called by the same word that a bell itself was called.

事实上这种计时的工具的报时原理就是在铃铛上撞击发出锵锵声，自然而然得了个和铃铛一样都被叫做"clock"。

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People experience differences in physical and mental capability depending on the time of day.

视一天中的不同时候而定，人们会经历体能和智能上的差异。

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Since the success of her novel, people shake her hand who once wouldn't have given her the time of day.

自从她的小说获得成功之后，曾经懒得答理她的人也跟她握起手来。

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It includes people who have really lost their jobs during this time of high unemployment in the United States.

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I think this might be the first time that John Milton is actually attacked or brought to the attention of the English people in print.

我想那可能是弥尔顿第一次被抨击,或在出版界中引起英国人的注意。

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And a lot of the time obviously, they have, you know, Polish people, a lot of Polish people in Britain,

而且显然，很多时候，这里有波兰人，很多波兰人在英国。

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time.

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In politics, you don't have to fool all the people all the time, just some of the people some of the time.

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Moments like that help offset the somewhat self-congratulatory nature of the film, especially in how it halos the white people of the time who happen to have anti-segregationist attitudes.

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