It's telling time.

它能显示时间

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

but at the same time, whenever my friends are telling about the classes they have to go,

但是，每当我朋友说起他们要上的课，

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Now this on page 2. This is how he talks: All this time Dean was telling Marylou things like this.

这是在第二页，他这样说：,一直以来安总是对玛丽露说些这样的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

At a time when beards meant a great deal religiously, he's telling the men to shave off their beards.

在当时人们把大胡子当做虔诚的象征,彼得却叫人把胡子都刮了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So, you can understand they really felt quite confident at this time that we could explain everything that was going on and in fact, a really telling quote from the time was said by a professor at the University of Chicago, and what he said is, "Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth decimal place."

所以你可以理解,为什么当时的人那么,自信的说我们可以解释,这世界上发生的一起事情,事实上，当时有个著名的名言,是芝加哥大学的一个教授说的,他说“我们今后的科学发现,就在于弄清楚小数点第六位后的数，“

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I need to spend less time at the office and more time with my family, telling the people that I love that I love them, doing the things that are important to me, spend less time worrying about getting ahead, making money,getting the plasma TV,whatever it is.

我要花更少时间在工作上，多陪陪家人，告诉我爱的人们我爱他们，做那些对我来说重要的事情，不再浪费时间担心如何获得成功，想着赚大钱，买等离子电视什么的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

- Well -- and I'll fix this blue next time -- I'm first telling the compiler I need access to the standard io library because printf is declared there.

哦！--下次我把这个字体颜色改成蓝色的-,我先告诉编译器--我需要使用,标准输入输出库,因为printf在那个库里面申明的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I had such a great time with it, so I'm telling you my experience.

读这本书是种享受,跟你们交流下经验吧

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But at the same time it depended on me telling her what to say.

但是同时也取决于我告诉她说什么。

中国学生的特点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Last time we reach the third law which is telling us that we can't quite get to zero degrees Kelvin .but that as the temperature approaches zero degrees Kelvin, the absolute entropy of a pure substance in perfect crystalline form is zero.

上次课我们得到了热力学第三定律,这个定律告诉我们我们无法,达到0K的温度,但是在我们接近绝对零度的过程中，以完美晶体形式存在的纯物质的绝对熵,也趋向于零。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And every time I talk to her, she's always telling me what to do.

每次我跟她讲话的时候，她总是指挥我怎么做。

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