No matter how surly, unpredictable or ungrateful Vincent was, every month, regular as clockwork, the brotherly subsidy rolled in.

不管有多么乖戾、难以捉摸和毫不领情，每个月他的弟弟都会准时寄来补助金。

By the late 19th century, you could buy clockwork wind up table fans that ran for half an hour on a spring coil, or small fans fueled by kerosene and alcohol flames, heating a little engine.

19世纪末市面上有发条台式风扇，上紧发条可运转半小时，还有煤油、酒精驱动小型发动机的风扇。

Saturday nights is like clockwork with these guys.

对这些家伙来说，周六晚上就像时钟一样准时。

Clockwork is that mechanism we have for the old fashioned watches.

发条是我们为老式手表设计的机械装置。

If everything is going as planned, we can say it is " running like clockwork."

如果一切都按计划进行，我们可以说它进行很顺利。

Well, you take the pill every day like clockwork, right? - Yeah.

你每天都有按时吃药吧？-没错。

Half an hour each time, like clockwork.

每次半个小时，分秒不差。

Clockwork whirred. Cogs turned and meshed, brass warmly glowing.

钟的发条装置嗡嗡地旋转，齿轮转动啮合，黄铜散发出温暖的光芒。

Of course it took several years before everything worked like clockwork in that department.

不过确实要花上几年那方面才会和谐。

Matt came round each Friday, regular as clockwork.

【clockwork】马每星期五过来，非常准时。

I know it sucks, but we're creatures of habit and if you want to be able to fall asleep immediately, getting in a good routine will set up your body to literally work like clockwork.

我知道这让人很不爽，但我们是忠于的生物，如果你想马上就能入睡，养成良好的作会让你的身体像时钟一样准时工作。

The animal behaves as if he's seen these things and we don't do this because we want to turn the mouse into a clockwork orange case, but because we're interested in understanding how the cortex works.

动物表现好像他看到了这些东西，我们这样做不是因为我们想把老鼠变成一个发条橙盒，而是因为我们对理解大脑皮层是如何工作的感兴趣。

The expression " run like clockwork" can also mean to operate, manage, control, or direct something in a very smooth, efficient, reliable manner.

短语“run like clockwork”也可以指以一种非常平稳、效、可靠的方式操作、管理、控制或指挥某事。

Then, around 350 years ago, the truth about light was revealed through a combination of one man's genius and the clockwork orbits of the heavens.

直到 350 年前光的真相才被揭晓，这多亏了一个天才的头脑，以及精准的天体运行规律。

" It's like clockwork, " Cherry said. " The sunlight is low. The day ends at 4: 45, and suddenly my mood is horrible."

“它就像发条一样，”切里说。“太阳光照量很低。4点45分太阳就下山了，我的心情突然就变很糟糕。”

We've found evaporating planets, disintegrating planets, planets clustered together in a clockwork dance, ultra-puffy planets, ultra-dense planets.

我们还发现了蒸发行星、解体行星、以机械运转形态聚在一起的行星、过度膨胀的行星、过度紧缩的行星。

Every night he would go through the mail, and every night, like clockwork, he would get very cranky.

每天晚上他都会过一遍邮件，他也每一晚都会因邮件而不爽。

The 13 towers that line this ridge stand testament to our enduring fascination with the clockwork of the heavens.

这十三座连成一排的塔体现了人类对天体运行规律的持续不断的兴趣。

" As regular as clockwork, he tells his family about his day."

“和往常一样，他跟家人诉说他的一天是怎么过的。”

Creating a routine will set up your body to work like literal clockwork.

建立一个常规的睡眠时间会让你的身体像时钟一样运作。