不过那只是“整刻点敲钟”的三个敲钟人。
But that may just be the three Jacks "hammering the bells to separate the quarters from the minutes."
客厅传来钟表敲打刻点的声音，接下来是短暂的静止——时间的停止，直到书房里的钟表微弱地做出了回应。
From the hall the clock calling out the quarter hour, then a moment of stillness - time stalling - before, faintly, the clock in her study responded.
在晚上大约八点差一刻时乔·乌尔贝打了电话。
她安排了一个星期五下午四点一刻的约会。
She arranged an appointment for Friday afternoon at four-fifteen.
那一刻我一点也不生气——当然也没有责骂。
I was not angry at all at that moment—and I certainly didn't scold.
南极天文台三大观测宇宙的天文台之一，旨在检测由宇宙大爆炸而产生的大量存在于微光辐射中的扭曲现象，利用天文望远镜对宇宙射线背景进行筛选，再利用星系群的特点确定一个点，即当宇宙射线穿过极热气体时会产生轻微混乱，混乱的那一刻就是所要找的那个点。
The telescopes sift through the background cosmic radiation to find spots where it has been slightly perturbed as it passes through extremely hot gas, a hallmark characteristic of galaxy clusters.
从我和同志们分开的那一刻起，我确信我的坏情况只是变得更坏了，随后见到的每一个标志似乎都在证实这一点。
From the moment I was split from my comrades, I was convinced that my bad situation had only gotten worse, and every subsequent sign seemed to confirm it.
非常酷的一点：轮胎由结实的橡胶环刻而成(当时的轮胎都不充气的)，这是唯一能支撑车重的方法。
One cool bit: the tires were chiseled from solid blocks of rubber, the only way to support the weight of the car.
它使系统可以回答在某一特定时间点，对于在另一时刻的事实，系统知道什么的问题。
It allows the system to answer questions about what was known at a certain point in time about a fact at another moment.
我们认为他不能在一刻钟内走完那段距离，但他却成功地做到了这一点。
We didn't think he could cover the distance in a quarter of an hour, but he succeeded in doing it.
为了证明最后一点的正确性，作者忽略了关键的相反情况——零售商开始失去顾客的那一刻。
Tohelp get this last part right, the authors isolate key defection points - critical moments when retailers are apt to lose customers.
它的美会完全展现在你的眼前——你了解到这一点的那一刻起，你就会沉迷于其中。
It is completely accessible to the eyes, and you know it the moment you enjoy it.
男士、国际商务调解员等等可能还会用大而重的刻花玻璃酒杯大口大口地喝苏格兰威士忌，喝时只是在酒里稍加一点水以减轻其烈性。
Real men, international business trouble-shooters and the like, may still gulp Scotch from heavy cut-glass tumblers with nothing more than a drop of water to blunt the harshness of it.
很重要的一点，我们双方都意识到，在当前这一时刻，需要采取共同的努力和行动。
And most importantly, we understand that joint decisions and consolidated action are what is most important now.
即席演讲在你的生活中迟早会出现的：某一时刻，某一地点，一个手指会指向你，你必须站起来说点什么，所以你最好早做准备。
It'll happen sooner or later in life, so you might at well get ready for it, sometime, somewhere, a finger will point your way, and you'll be asked to get up and say a few words.
她四点一刻骑自行车去了有轨电车车库，四点半就上了开往施韦青根的有轨电车。
She rode her bicycle to the streetcar depot at a quarter past four and was on the streetcar to Schwetzingen at four-thirty.
道格拉斯·菲赫斯特用了不少篇幅讨论这一点，但是书中另一个主要观点是狄更斯时时刻刻感觉到事物似是而非。
Mr Douglas-Fairhurst covers much ground, but one of his central ideas is Dickens’s pervasive sense of what might have been.
傍晚六点，在门口守候白先生，等他一刻便把阴谋告诉他吗？
Should he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o 'clock, at the moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap?
这一点需要强调，这样在某一时刻，您作为一个企业架构师，知道这些进程需要得到我们的注意。
These need to be highlighted so that, at any point in time, you as an Enterprise Architect, know that these processes need attention.
那人告诉我，他们每天都不得不在4点差一刻的时候就把孩子们叫醒。
The man told me they had to get the kids up at a quarter to four every morning.
3月14日下午两点三刻，当代最伟大的思想家停止思想了。
On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think.
这是进化的关键点，Berg博士说，当RNA学会如何制造蛋白质的那一刻。
“This is a key point in evolution, ” Dr. Berg said, “when RNA learned to make proteins.”
一个下午，疲劳的我习惯性的看了看我的里程表并计算了一下——还有23英里，如果风向不变的话应该需要两个小时。五点一刻的时候我将会到达预定的汽车旅馆。
On a tiring afternoon I'll habitually monitor my odometer and do the math - 23 miles to go, two hours if the wind doesn't turn; I'll be in my motel by 5:15.
虽然在这条路上，我仍然还只是一个正在努力学习的人，有的时候还会碰到屡不清事情原委的时候(可能是旧习惯顽固不化作怪)，但有一点我是知道的，那就是消极情绪永远不会刻碑立传。
I am still learning and I still get things wrong (old habits die hard), but one thing I do know is that negative behaviours aren't written in stone.
我们认为她不能在一刻钟走完那段距离，但她却成功地做到了这一点。
We believe that she could not go through that distance in a quarter of an hour, but she succeeded in doing this.
我们认为她不能在一刻钟走完那段距离，但她却成功地做到了这一点。
We believe that she could not go through that distance in a quarter of an hour, but she succeeded in doing this.
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