Indeed, the very notion of productivity is a by-product of the clock: once one can relate performance to uniform time units, work is never the same.

事实上，生产力的概念本身就是时钟的副产品：一旦工作表现与统一的时间单位可以联系起来，工作就永远都不一样了。

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Time units can also be changed.

时间单位也可以更改。

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In the case of the age element, you also have a possible attribute to give the time units.

在使用age元素的情况下，还可以通过一个属性来指定时间单位。

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But from the time the organization was established in 2001, the supply has sometimes been as low as 40,000 units.

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suppose I asked you to time a 100 meter spring in the Olympics, but I give you a stopwatch that is measured in units of 15 seconds?

如果我要求你,在奥林匹克数给100米短跑计时，但我会给你一个秒表,它可以测出15秒的大小？

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Well, this is just a way of saying not bits, but units of eight bits at a time.

好，这里可能不用说比特，而是说以八个比特为单位的字节。

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In fact, this new doctrine has already been adopted by the United States military, with the Army articulating aims to make itself as flexible as possible, as evidenced by the rapid deployment time of units like the 101st and 82nd Airborne, elements of which can be deployed in as little as 36 hours.

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