Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time.

几个世纪以来，人们开发了多种不同的计量时间方法。

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There are about a hundred things in the museum to see: clocks which have been telling the time for six hundred years, Roman money, some of the earliest books in the world, including Shakespeare's own works.

博物馆里有大约一百件东西可看：计时已有六百年的钟表、罗马货币、世界上一些最早的书籍，包括莎士比亚的作品。

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However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time.

然而，人类很快就发现了更方便更准确的报告时间的方法。

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At a time when beards meant a great deal religiously, he's telling the men to shave off their beards.

在当时人们把大胡子当做虔诚的象征,彼得却叫人把胡子都刮了

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but at the same time, whenever my friends are telling about the classes they have to go,

但是，每当我朋友说起他们要上的课，

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So, you can understand they really felt quite confident at this time that we could explain everything that was going on and in fact, a really telling quote from the time was said by a professor at the University of Chicago, and what he said is, "Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth decimal place."

所以你可以理解,为什么当时的人那么,自信的说我们可以解释,这世界上发生的一起事情,事实上，当时有个著名的名言,是芝加哥大学的一个教授说的,他说“我们今后的科学发现,就在于弄清楚小数点第六位后的数，“

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Telling the time is not what this is all about.

FORBES: Sultan of schlock

The Minotaur figured that this was her way of telling him the time had come for him to eat her.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

This is all the more telling at a time when the Iranians' Shia co-religionists in neighbouring Iraq are likely to emerge, by democratic means, as that embattled country's leading legislators.

ECONOMIST: Iran