Society needed a more dependable instrument of time measurement and found it in the mechanical clock.

社会需要一种更可靠的时间测量仪器，它就是机械钟。

youdao

For a single instrument, say something like a piano recital, a room with a short reverberation time is better.

对于单一的乐器，比如钢琴独奏会，一个回声时间短的房间更好。

youdao

One way in particular that we can see the social impact of this instrument is its role in the lives of women of the time.

我们尤其可以从这个工具对当时妇女生活起到的作用中看到它们的社会影响。

youdao

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Mission control replied that it was "wonderful to see Hubble, the most famous scientific instrument of all time, newly upgraded and ready for action thanks to you".

BBC: Shuttle releases repaired Hubble

One of these tricks is the ability to swivel its instrument in quick time to acquire a strip, or mosaic, of images around its target in a single pass overhead.

BBC: Sharp-eyed Pleiades returns first pictures

Instrument makers of the time also invented a trumpet with a sliding, telescoping tube extension.

NPR: Young Tuba Player Gets Nod from Phila. Orchestra