Otherwise, people are gonna think you're a major league cuckoo clock.

不然大家只觉得你是个职棒联盟里不起眼破钟表。

Long ago, the queen of England knew that many clocks had different times.

很久以前，英国女王知道很多钟表时间都不一样。

Alex Jeffrey, one of three clockmakers at the Palace of Westminster, said the clock had been transported to Cumbria, in northwestern England, to be taken apart and put back together.

威斯敏斯特宫三位钟表匠之一亚历克斯·杰弗里说，这座钟已被运往英格兰西坎布里亚郡进行拆卸和重建。

The young woman kept looking at the clock, and when her husband arrived, she hurried to meet him.

年轻母亲一直看着钟表，当她丈夫回来时，她赶快上前去迎他。

Well, you could be right – because not all timepieces go tick tock. In fact, mechanical clocks and watches are quite recent in the history of timekeeping.

嗯，也许你答案是对。因为不是所有钟表都会嘀嗒响。实际上，如今机械表和手表都没什声音。

Rick's lifelong study of clocks puts the concept of time into a unique perspective.

里克对钟表毕生研究将时间概念置于一个独特视角。

Critics of moving clocks an hour forward every summer say it disrupts human biorhythms.

反对每年夏天将钟表调快一小时人士表示这一做法扰乱了人体生物钟。

But his pieces were private experiments, not commissions.

但是他制作钟表都是个人试，非受委托制作商。

The hour hand of the clock has moved all around its great face.

钟表上时针也会再钟表盘上转整整一圈。”

What does a typical day of work look like for an antiquarian horologist?

古董钟表师一天常规工作是什样子？

Anyway, in an agency, when we reach a point like this...

真吗? 我以为最棒钟表匠都在欧洲。

It will be remembered that the obstinate fellow had insisted on keeping his famous family watch at London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable.

我们总还记得这个顽固小伙子曾一直让他那个传家之宝大银表，一成不变地保持着伦敦时间。他在沿途各地都一直认为别人钟表所指示时间是错误。

With your clock time it is very difficult for you to conceive of large concepts to begin with.You are forced to think using word symbols strung one before the other, and therefore you are imprisoned by a camouflage of continuity.

在你钟表时间里，你很难一开始就设想一个庞大概念。你被迫使用一个个串 联起来文字符号来思考，因此你被连续性伪装所禁锢。

Following that mistake he lost his driver's license and was locked up in the police station without a clock for a week. He also had a broken neck and had to receive ten stitches to repair his knee.

经过这场事故之后，他失掉了驾照并在一个没有钟表警察局里被关了一个星期，他还弄伤了脖子，并在膝盖上缝了十针。

Mechanical clocks, the ones with springs and stuff weren't much better at the time, a few weeks at sea with a bad mechanical watch and your Greenwich time is wrong.

那些带弹簧之类件机械钟此时也好不到哪儿去，带着走时不准机械钟表出海几周，你格林威治时间就出错了。

Two ticks. In English, we say clocks make this noise: tick tock, tick tock. So two ticks is just like saying two seconds.

two ticks。在英语中，我们说钟表会发出这样声音：滴答，滴答。所以two ticks就相当于两秒钟。

It is most startling to hear a watch or clock clicking away the seconds, each click indicating the shortening of one's life by a little bit.

最令人怵目惊心一件事，是看着钟表上秒针一下一下移动，每移动一下就是表示我们寿命已经缩短了一分。

What you actually described to them is called a Solar day, and it's not the same thing as a day kept by a clock.

你向他们描述实际上是太阳日，和钟表上日子不一样。

That evening, when the clock struck seven, she was let by unseen hands into the dining hall. She sat down and waited.

当天晚上，当钟表敲响七次时候，她被那双看不见手引进餐厅。于是她坐下来，静静等待。

When you look at the hands of the clock, you think they go very slowly, and so they do; but they never stop.

“当你拿它们和钟表上指针比较时，你觉得它们走得非常慢。它们走得确很慢，但它们从没停下脚步。”