"Three or four hours before I could fall asleep. I wake up three o'clock in the morning with the same stuff on my mind, tossing and turning.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Indeed, he said in his various pronouncements written for him by someone else that he didn't want to be a king of the old regime, he did not want to turn the clock back to 1788, and that you could combine a modernity with monarchy.

在一篇由人代笔的自我声明中,他表示并不想成为旧有政体的国王,他不想把时间倒退回1788年,完全可以把君主制和现代化结合

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

where the men who used to trade with the tea or the big clock merchants.

那里男人曾经做茶叶的贸易或者大的钟表商。

拥有庭院的意义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

but she has not had the best of luck in the romance department and, with her biological clock ticking away, she has decided the "right guy" may never show up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30