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的破表。

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

久以前，英国女王知道表的时间都不样。

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.

威斯敏斯特宫的三位表匠之亚历克斯·杰弗里说，这座已被运往英格兰西北部的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.

年轻的母亲直看着表，当她的丈夫回来时，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，也许你的答案是对的。因为不是所有的表都会嘀嗒响。实际上，如今的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.

里克对表的毕生研究将时间的概念置于个独特的视角。

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

反对每年夏将表调快小时的人士表示这做法扰乱了人体的生物。

But his pieces were private experiments, not commissions.

但是他制作的表都是个人的试验品，而非受委托制作的商品。

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

表上的时针也会再表盘上转整整圈。”

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

古董表的常规工作是什样子的？

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

真的吗? 我以为最棒的表匠都在欧洲。

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的小伙子曾直让他那个传家之宝的大银表，成不变地保持着伦敦时间。他在沿途各地都直认为别人的表所指示的时间是错误的。

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.

在你的表时间里，你难开始就设想个庞大的概念。你被迫使用个个串 联起来的文字符号来思考，因此你被连续性的伪装所禁锢。

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，他失掉了驾照并在个没有表的警察局里被关了个星期，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.

那些带弹簧之类部件的机械此时也好不到哪儿去，带着走时不准的机械表出海几周，你的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，我们说表会发出这样的声音：滴答，滴答。所以two ticks就相当于两秒。

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.

最令人怵目惊心的件事，是看着表上的秒针下下的移动，每移动下就是表示我们的寿命已经缩短了部分。

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.

你向他们描述的实际上是太阳日，和表上的日子不样。

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

当晚上，当表敲响七次的时候，她被那双看不见的手引进餐厅。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.

“当你拿它们和表上的指针比较时，你觉得它们走得非常慢。它们走得的确慢，但它们从没停下脚步。”