The new cities and towns, squeezed by their walls, had to know and order time in order to organize collective activity and ration space.

在新的城市和小镇，由于其空间的限制，那里的居民必须要知道确切的时间且安排好时间，以组织集体活动和分配空间。

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I need time to order my thoughts.

我需要时间梳理一下思路。

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Which of the following is the correct time order?

下列哪一项是正确的时间顺序？

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He and Clare were married a short time after a court order canceled his first marriage.

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Milton tells himself to run, and naturally he would have to run fast indeed in order to arrive at a moment in time that had already occurred before he even set out!

弥尔顿告诉自己要跑起来了，而且他也确实不得不跑的很快,从而准时到达,他刚出发时就已经存在的目的地！

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If you haven't seen Law & Order, the way to see Law & order is to go to a random TV set, at a random time, and turn on a random channel.

你要是没看过,随便去找个电视机,在任意时段任意频道都能看到

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One of the ways they try to reduce the order time is to offer fewer choices from the outset.

FORBES: Getting The Car You Want

But a similar order last time did nothing to stop Mr Edwards from holding news conferences regularly during his trial.

ECONOMIST: Louisiana politics

Countries can elect to get their fiscal houses in order over time, getting the fiscal deficits below the growth of nominal GDP.

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