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"。
Why do we indulge in the myth that the fabulous wealth generated by this mode of production will in the fullness of time become available to all people?
为什么我们要沉迷于这样一个神话：这种生产方式所产生的神话般的财富将在适当的时候为所有人所享用？
Many countries depend on the efforts of people who offer their time to help illiterate individuals.
许多国家依赖于人们的努力，他们贡献自己的时间来帮助文盲。
These days, because leisure time is relatively scarce for most workers, people use their free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional demands of their jobs.
如今，由于休闲时间对大多数工人来说都相对较少，人们通常利用空闲时间来平衡工作中智力及情感上的需要。
Most of the time people chew their food slowly, as my mother taught me so many years ago.
大多数时候人们慢慢地咀嚼食物，就像许多年前我妈妈教我的那样。
Before the invention of television, people spent their leisure time in more active and social pursuits.
在电视发明之前，人们会把空闲时间花在更积极的消遣和社会活动上。
Actually that's the bit that tends to get badly done because people run out of time.
实际上，这是最容易出错的部分，因为人们没有时间了。
As more and more people lose their jobs, now is perhaps the time to consider the experience of unemployment.
随着越来越多的人失业，现在也许是时候考虑失业的经历了。
It shows how people lived at the time is also of great interest to natural scientists because the waters around it are so shallow.
它向人们展示了在那个时代人们是怎样的生活，而且自然科学家对它也十分地感兴趣，因为它周围的水域很浅。
To her, individuals, people best reflect the reality of their time, of the age that they lived in, so she painted portraits.
对她来说，个体或者人们最好地反映了他们那个时代的现实以及他们身处的时代，所以她画肖像画。
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。
The programme is designed to help people who have been out of work for a long time.
这项计划的目的是为长期失业者提供帮助。
Fair-skinned people who spend a great deal of time in the sun have the greatest risk of skin cancer.
皮肤白皙的人长时间待在太阳底下患皮肤癌的危险最大。
People need time away from the pressures of study or work to relax and enjoy time with friends and family.
人们需要时间远离学习或工作的压力，放松身心，享受与朋友和家人在一起的时光。
An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.
非自愿兼职工作的增加是劳动力市场疲软的证据，这意味着许多人将很难做到收支平衡。
There was a loss of confidence in the time of an economic crisis, and people wanted to withdraw their money from the banks.
在经济危机时期，人们失去了信心，想从银行把钱取出来。
Our subject this evening is James Dean, actor and hero for the young people of his time.
今晚我们的主题是詹姆斯·迪恩——他那个时代的年轻人心目中的英雄和演员。
Some people think the festival is the happiest time of a year, even better than the Spring Festival, because food gives people a sense of safety and hope.
有些人认为这个节日是一年中最欢乐的时候，甚至比春节还要快乐，因为食物给人们带来了安全感和希望。
Another cause is that the proportion of people who are trying to lose weight has been increasing over time.
另一个原因是，随着时间的推移，试图减肥的人群比例一直在增加。
Like most working people, I find time or the lack of it, are never ending frustration and an unwinable battle.
像大多数工作的人一样，我发现，时间或缺乏时间，是个永无尽头的令人沮丧的事情和一场永远无法取胜的战斗。
They say it could be reached by an unmanned spaceship before the end of the century in time for people alive today to see it.
他们说，在本世纪末之前，无人驾驶的宇宙飞船就能到达那里，让今天活着的人们及时看到它。
Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time.
在世界各地，由于夏令时的开始或结束，人们改变了睡眠规律。
And that means that for the first time people will have a chance to get up close and personal with the type of African-American woman they so rarely see.
这意味着人们将首次有机会近距离接触他们很少见到的那种非裔美国女性。
Around 70% of the people felt it was important to spend time in the garden, and over 50% of these described gardening as the most enjoyable thing .
大约70%的人认为花时间在花园里很重要，超过50%的人认为园艺是最令人愉快的事情。
Like most working people, I find time or the lack of it, are never-ending frustration and an unwinnable battle.
像大多数工作党一样，我发现，时间或缺乏时间，是个永无尽头的令人沮丧的事情，是一场永远无法取胜的战斗。
The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.
自愿兼职的问题与奥巴马医改计划有关，因为该计划主要目的之一就是让人们在就业之外得到保险。
About 20% of people 65 and older were in the workforce in February, up from an all-time low of 10% in January 1985, according to money manager United Income.
资金管理公司 United Income的数据显示，截至今年2月，65岁及以上人口占劳动力的比例已从1985年1月10%的历史最低水平增至约20%。
Culture is also passed on among people of the same time or among people belonging to different populations.
文化也在同一时代的人之间或属于不同种族的人口之间传递。
Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time.
几个世纪以来，人们开发了多种不同的计量时间方法。
Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time.
几个世纪以来，人们开发了多种不同的计量时间方法。
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