Society needed a more dependable instrument of time measurement and found it in the mechanical clock.

社会需要一种更可靠的时间测量仪器，它就是机械钟。

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We have John standing by the time clock, and he swears he saw nothing irregular.

我们让约翰负责看着打卡机，他发誓没有看到任何异常。

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This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work is organized by clock time.

这可能会稍稍改变我们对工作和办公室的看法，但研究人员认为，这是对现今经济的一个普遍特征——按时钟时间来组织工作——的挑战。

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And administrators had planned to return to the eight o'clock start time after the study.

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Deportivo was losing 2-1 at the time and, with the clock ticking away, everyone expected a long, looping Hail Mary type whack into the Madrid box, hoping for a deflection or a header or even a deflected header to equalize: in those situations, you can't really be picky.

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The new version works pretty much the same way the old version worked: It's a racing game where your goal is often to simply cause as much carnage as possible, hitting opponent cars and drilling pedestrians for more points and time on the clock.

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Jerrold Zacharias at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a practical atomic clock around the same time that Louis Essen and John Parry established the first atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, west of London.

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