I set the clock by the time given on my watch.

我按照我手表上的时间设定这个时钟。

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If I could set the clock back, I'd give more thought to preparing for a career.

如果我能使时光倒流，我会更认真地考虑作出一番事业来。

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Think about how many times you've heard people complain that only their kids knew how to set the clock on the VCR.

不妨回想下你听到过多少次这样的抱怨，家里的摄录机定时功能只有孩子们知道怎么用。

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First of all, negative time should not bother anybody; t=0 is when I set the clock, I measured time forward, but yesterday would be t = -1 day, right?

首先,负的时间对我们不存在任何干扰,t=0使我们设定的初始时间,我是用顺序计时,所以昨天就可以记为-1天,对吗

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That's correct. So her answer was, if it was a full parabola, then we know it would've been at the ground before I set my clock to 0.

她说,如果运动轨迹为一条完整的抛物线,那么它在我们所设定的零时刻之前,就已经落地了

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If that's all it knows, then in that scenario there is no building or anything else; it continues a trajectory both forward in time and backward in time, and it says that whatever seconds, one second before you set your clock to 0, it would've been on the ground.

如果是这样,在那种模式下,没有楼房或者别的什么,物体的运动轨迹可以沿时间可以向后延伸,也可以向前延伸,不管时间取什么值,在零点前一秒时,物体就在地面上

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That deal also set the clock ticking toward the now-notorious sequester, if a broader deficit-reduction deal wasn't put in place.

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This set the clock ticking on their ten-month limit in the U.S. Yet the first Indians didn't show up until Halloween.

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Any deal needs to meet with approval in the Cypriot parliament as well as the EU, and the Monday deadline set by the ECB means the clock is ticking.

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