The natural waking process helps to set "body clock" and makes people build a healthy sleep and wake habit slowly.

自然清醒的过程有助于设定“生物钟”，让人们建立一个健康的睡眠和慢慢醒来的习惯。

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There has to be some gap of clock cycles between the unblocking of signals and the next instruction carried by the process, and any occurrence of a signal in this window of time is lost.

从消除信号阻塞到进程执行下一个指令之间，必然会有时钟周期间隙，任何在此时间窗口发生的信号都会丢掉。

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With animated visual (for example, a spinning clock), the user has a sense that something is happening and is much more willing to wait for the process to complete.

有了动画视觉(例如，旋转时钟)，用户可以意识到将要发生什么，更愿意等待进程完成。

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The clock was ticking down to its last minutes of the Drew Brees contract negotiation, a process that had dragged on for several months.

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The Commission has remanded Motorola's case back to the Administrative Law Judge that gave the initial ruling, which very nearly restarts the clock: a new ruling won't come for months, and the usual review process guarantees even more of a delay even if the decision once more works in Motorola's favor.

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Spain had possessed the ball for roughly two-thirds of its games, turning each match into a high-class version of keep-ball, and in the process, becoming the first team to turn passing the ball into a form of defense: Like a clock-eating drive in football, if Spain has the ball, its opponent can't score and the Spanish keep the ball so well that they barely give up any chances, let alone goals.

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