A pendulum dramatically improved a clock's ability to keep time and became the standard for precise clocks.

钟摆的发明大大改进了钟表的计时能力，逐渐地，摆钟成为了标准计时工具的首选。

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And inversely the purpose of history is to keep time together so that all are brothers and companions in the same quest and conquest of time.

因此，反过来说，历史的目的就是把时间收集到一处，从而所有的人都在时间的同一的探求和征服中成为兄弟和伙伴。

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Freeman knows this and is working out a system to keep time-strapped customers in a line separate from coffee drinkers who can wait for that pot of siphon coffee or the hand-pour.

弗里曼明白这一点，他正在设计一套系统，使时间紧张的顾客可以单独排队，与愿意等待虹吸咖啡或手冲咖啡的顾客分开。

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The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

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I'll do so next time and probably in subsequent lectures because we're going to keep using these coordinates.

这点我们下几节课会讲到,下几节课我们会进一步阐述。

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All right? It's now something that I can search in constant time. And that's what's going to allow me to keep this thing as being log.

在固定的时间内搜索,这样就可以让时间复杂度保持在对数级,好的，考虑过了这些。

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Intense concentration swaps for giggles as one of the girls stumbles a fraction while trying to keep time with the heart-clutching melody of the song.

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Vanderkam points out that surveys in which people are asked to recall how much time they spent on certain activities usually get different results compared to experiments that ask people to keep a time diary.

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She liked to keep to time, to do what it told her to do.

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