Clock

(noun.) a timepiece that shows the time of day.

(verb.) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; 'he clocked the runners'.

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• Dating from three o'clock yesterday. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Oh, at six o'clock: he keeps early hours in the country. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried-- Silence! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• At two o'clock I descended again to the breakfast-room, a little anxiously. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was three o'clock in the morning. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Punctually at eleven o'clock, the carriages began to arrive. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I counted a' th' clocks in the town striking afore I'd leave my work. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• However, in 1657 Christian Huygens applied the pendulu m to weight clocks of the old stamp. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Thus all the clocks in the series could be regulated every hour, for the collapse of the clippers pushed the hand forward if it were too late, or thrust it back if it had gained. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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