About 5,500 years ago, the Egyptians invented the sun clock.
约5500年前，埃及人发明了太阳钟。
When he had scraped till about four o 'clock he felt that he verily would have to give over soon, and he said to himself, "There's only this last tune between me and eternal welfare!"
当他拉到大约四点钟的时候，他真不知道他是不是很快就要拉不下去了，就自言自语地说，“这是我剩下的最后一支曲子了！”
A few moments later, about three o 'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet.
过了一会儿，将近三点钟，古费拉克在博须埃陪同下，偶然经过穆夫达街。
"The 2 percent increase we can think of as turning back the clock about two years," Kramer says.
我们可以想象2%的提高就像把时钟往回倒两年，“克莱默说。”
To Notify Clients About Real-World Events The user pressed a key; the clock struck midnight; the fan failed and the CPU is on fire.
通知客户机实际的事件：用户按下某个按键；午夜时钟敲响；风扇停止工作造成 CPU 烧毁；
He glances up at the wall clock and realizes he only has about thirty minutes before he has to leave to meet Jane for lunch.
瞥了一眼墙上的钟，他意识到还剩下三十分钟就要去和简一起吃午饭。
At about 2 o 'clock on the afternoon of July 14, 1960, we arrived at Kasekela, a campsite midway along the 10-mile coastline of the reserve.
1960年7月14日大约下午两点，我们到达了露营地凯瑟克拉，它位于自然保护区10公里长的湖岸线半路上。
He talks of "creating or saving" no fewer than 4m jobs and of completing a withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months of taking office: the clock is about to start ticking.
他谈到了创造或保留不少于400万个工作岗位，以及在上任16个月内从从伊拉克撤军：钟表就要开始走动了。
About half of Americans make New Year's resolutions when the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1st.
一月一号新年钟声响起的时候，大约一半美国人都会决定自己的新年目标。
'it's working all right, but I'm afraid that at one o 'clock it will strike thirteen times and there's nothing I can do about it.
不错，钟能报时了，但是，恐怕每到1点钟，它总要敲13下，对此我已无能为力了。
It was about 4:30 PM by the cheap digital alarm clock that glowed redly in Ian's darkened bedroom.
廉价的电子钟在Ian昏暗的卧室里发出红光，已经是下午4：30了。
Assuming you work from age 22 to age 65 for 235 days a year, you'll be on someone else's clock for about 80, 000 hours, or one tenth of your life.
假设你从22岁工作到65岁，而且一年工作235天，你将在某个人的的时钟里换成80,000个工作小时，或者你生命的十分之一。
EVEN a broken clock is right twice a day, so the notion that starving the beast is a bad strategy doesn't imply that its proponents are wrong about everything.
就算是一个坏钟，每天也有两次准确显示时间的时候，所以让野兽挨饿的观念是个糟糕的战略并不意味着它就一无是处。
By the way, if you're curious about why racemization is so much less accurate a clock than C-14 for dating a tooth's age, part of the explanation has to do with temperature.
顺便说一下，如果你好奇为什么在判断牙齿年龄方面、外消旋化会比碳14定义的时钟精度差之甚多，那么部分原因与温度相关。
It turns out that when our internal clock is ticking faster, we don't just perceive the external world as moving slower - we can actually remember more about it.
原来，当我们的内部时钟节拍加快以后，我们不但感知到外部世界的移动变慢了，我们实际上还可以记住更多的事情。
Comment on other people's blogs: Be an active part of the blogging community. People will see your comments and clock the link to find out more about you.
在他人的博客中发表评论：成为博客社区中的积极分子，人们看到评论后，会点击并查看你的相关信息。
Matt Blank from the Michael Jackson World Network fan club told the BBC that some UK fans had not found out about their tickets until four o 'clock on Monday morning.
迈克尔·杰克逊世界网粉丝俱乐部的马特·布兰特告诉BBC说一些英国的粉丝直到周一早晨四点仍没收到门票。
The alarm clock is about the size of a small child's shoebox, and the plastic is factory painted to look like it's wood.
闹钟大概是小型儿童鞋盒那么大，它的塑料外壳被漆成木头的样子。
Well. I am really tired from packing all of the stuff all day. And it's about time to clock out.
我真的厌倦了一整天都在这里打包这些东西，都该下班了。
So any news that enforces the idea about the possibility of having my own homo-parenting moment is exciting and sends me into deep biological-clock-ticking mode.
所以任何能让“同性父母”成为可能的消息都令人兴奋，让我深陷在生理周期运行的模式里。
The biological clock is a fact of life, but there's nothing magical about age 35.
生物钟是一个不争的事实，35岁并没什么特殊的。
Years ago I remember hearing about a child who’d grown up reading the time from digital clocks so that they’d never learned to read the time on a clock that had hands to mark off the hours.
从前我听闻孩子们从小用惯了电子表，以至于他们不会读有分针时针指示的时钟。
Before you know it (actually you do know it because you look at the clock about every 2 seconds) you have wasted 20 minutes of your valuable time and now you are late, angry and infuriated.
当你意识到(事实上你非常清楚，因为几乎是每两秒钟你就要看一下表)自己为此浪费了20分钟的宝贵时间，并且已经迟到的时候，不由得气塞填胸。
But the Godson 3c processor will leapfrog current technology by using a 28-nanometer process, although this will only increase its clock speed by about a factor of two, estimates Halfhill.
数值越小越先进，65纳米工艺落后了32纳米工艺两代而龙芯3c处理器将跳跃性的使用28纳米工艺，Halfhill估计这将使得龙芯有两倍的速度提升。
If it's afternoon, south lies about halfway between the hour hand and twelve o 'clock, counterclockwise.
如果是下午，那就按逆时针方向转，时针和12点位置的中间。
All I remember is that the same day, at about five o 'clock, he put us both into a post-chaise.
我能记得起来的就是那天五点钟光景，他让我跟他一起登上了一辆驿车。
"What we found was that the cycle length of the biological clock in women was shorter on average than it was in men," says Jeanne Duffy, a study author. "the average difference was about six minutes."
“我们发现，女性的平均生物钟周期长度要比男性的短“，一个研究学者，JeanneDuffy说，”平均下来这个差值有六分钟左右。”
Think of me to-morrow, my dear Emma, about four o 'clock, 'was Mrs. Weston's parting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and meant only for her.
“明天，大约四点钟时想想我吧，亲爱的爱玛，”这是韦斯顿太太临别时的叮嘱，话音里带有几分焦虑，只是说给爱玛听的。
Think of me to-morrow, my dear Emma, about four o 'clock, 'was Mrs. Weston's parting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and meant only for her.
“明天，大约四点钟时想想我吧，亲爱的爱玛，”这是韦斯顿太太临别时的叮嘱，话音里带有几分焦虑，只是说给爱玛听的。
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