This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work is organized by clock time.

这可能会稍稍改变我们对工作和办公室的看法，但研究人员认为，这是对现今经济的一个普遍特征——按时钟时间来组织工作——的挑战。

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This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristics of the economy: work is organized by clock time.

这可能会稍稍改变我们对工作和办公室的看法，但研究人员认为，这是对现今经济的一个普遍特征——按时钟时间组织工作——的挑战。

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The clock could tell the correct time in two places, meeting the requirements for learning longitude on the sea.

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One way to mark time is to imagine it carries a clock as it moves, and put markers every second.

标记时间的一种方法是,想像它带着时钟运动,并且每秒做一次标记

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My flight, my train should be leaving 8 o'clock tonight, Belgium time.

我的飞机，我的火车应该在比利时时间今晚八点出发。

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The football database covers five years and more than 500, 000 plays and includes such information as score, clock time, down distance, field position, time-outs left and weather.

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Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.

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The Jets' (8-8) defense was stout through three quarters, but couldn't get off the field during a 21-play, 94-yard Miami drive in the fourth, when the Dolphins (6-10) ate more than 12 minutes of clock time and finished with a touchdown to take a 13-10 lead.

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