clock
n
1 instrument for measuring and showing time (not carried or worn like a watch) 時鐘.
2 (infml 口) instrument (eg a taxi meter or a milometer) for measuring and recording things other than time 計量和記錄儀器(如計程車計費表或里程表)
a second-hand car with 20000 miles on the clock 里程表上顯示已行駛20000英里的二手車.
3 (idm 習語) around/round the `clock all day and all night 整天整夜; 夜以繼日
Surgeons are working round the clock to save his life. 外科醫生們正在日夜工作以搶救他的生命.
[attrib 作定語]
Doctors must provide a round-the-clock service. 必須晝夜不停地有醫生應診. beat the clock => beat1. put the `clock back return to a past age or to old-fashioned ideas, laws, customs, etc 開倒車; 倒行逆施
The new censorship law will put the clock back (by) 50 years. 新的審查條例是開倒車, 要退回到50年前的水平. put the clock/clocks forward/back (in countries which have official summer time) change the time, usu by one hour, at the beginning/end of summer (夏時制)將時鐘撥快[撥回](通常為一小時)
Remember to put your clocks back (one hour) tonight. 記住今天晚上把鐘撥回(一小時). watch the clock => watch2. ,work against the `clock work fast in order to finish a task before a certain time (為在某一時間完成任務)加快工作; 搶時間做.
?? 考研助記
cock(公雞)+l:模仿公雞的象聲詞,都是叫人起床- 鐘表 鬧鐘(c)上鎖(lock),不然亂鬧
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*[kl?k]n. 時鐘, 計時器, (襪子上的)繡花邊花vt. 繡花樣, 記時, 記錄vi. 記錄時間【計】 時鐘相關詞組: the clock round work against the clock watch the clock clock up