Then, every year or two, inventors working for the company could come up with a slightly improved version of the technology and patent it, and the seventeen-year clock would start over.

然后，每年或每两年，为公司工作的发明人可以带来该技术的轻微改进版本，并申请专利，17年的年限也将由此重新开始计算。

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The "10,000 Year Clock" funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start running soon.

由“亚马逊”创办人杰夫·贝佐斯出资建造的“万年钟”即将启动。

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It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

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It also gets the five year clock ticking in case they want to use the earnings tax-free towards a first-time home purchase someday.

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Given his early intellectual trajectory, the fact that he is now building a 10, 000-year clock in an eastern Nevada mountainside kind of makes sense.

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Even a small conversion will start an important five-year clock running.

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