The clock is simply for ornament; it doesn't work any more.

这架时钟纯属摆设，它再也不走了。

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The factory clock became the symbol of the new work rules.

工厂的钟成了新工作规则的象征。

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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 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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The workers would come into this store at seven oclock in the morning and work until twelve oclock at night.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

For many years after Mister Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected.

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In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.

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For Buck the breakthrough represented the payoff for three years of round-the-clock work in the lab at Columbia.

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Yet contrary to Bush's clear view on the matter, State Department officials work around the clock negotiating cease-fires.

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