Ignoring feelings of tiredness knocks our body clocks out of kilter.
忽视疲劳感会打乱我们的生物钟。
For example, we have Quartz crystal clocks and watches accurate to within one minute a year.
例如，我们使用的每年误差不超过1分钟的石英水晶钟表和手表。
These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cellphones and computers.
如今，时间随处可见：不仅在钟表上，在手机和电脑上也能看到。
One of the first water clocks was a basin with a small hole near the bottom through which the water dripped out.
最早的水钟之一是一个在底部附近有小洞的水盆，水从这个洞里滴出来。
In these factories they make watches and clocks, shoes, clothing, special tools for industry, leather goods, etc.
在这些工厂里，他们生产钟表、鞋子、服装、工业专用工具、皮革制品等。
By isolating organisms completely from external periodic cues, biologists learned that organisms have internal clocks.
通过将生物体与外部的周期信号完全隔离，生物学家了解到生物体有内部的生物钟。
Why are we awakened by the rustling sound of bed sheets on some nights, but oversleeping without paying attention to those alarm clocks that wake others up?
为什么我们在某些夜晚会被床单发出的沙沙声吵醒，却没有理会那些吵醒别人的闹钟声而睡过头呢？
Once known, it spread rapidly, driving out water clocks but not solar dials, which were needed to check the new machines against the timekeeper of last resort.
一旦被人所知，它就迅速传播开来，替代了水钟，但却没有替代日晷，日晷被用来将新机器与原来的计时方法进行对照检查。
Similarly, people rated cars, clocks, and watches with wide faces as more dominant-looking than narrow-faced ones, and preferred them—especially in competitive situations.
同样，人们认为宽面的汽车、时钟和手表看起来比窄面的更有优势，而且更喜欢宽面的——尤其是在竞争激烈的情况下。
Changing the clocks, however, does not actually increase the amount of driving done in the dark, so it is unlikely to have any effect on Benovia's automobile accident rate.
然而，改变时钟实际上并不会增加在黑暗中驾驶的时间，所以它不太可能对 Benovia 的交通事故率有任何影响。
Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.
当然，太阳时钟只能在晴天工作；当温度下降到接近冰点时，水钟就会失灵，长期漂浮的东西因为下沉或堵塞而无法工作。
Water clocks were the first clocks not to use the sun.
水钟是第一种不利用太阳计时的钟。
They include clocks and hand-washing machines.
它们包括钟表和手洗机。
This improved accuracy and allowed clocks to be smaller.
这提高了精确度，并让时钟变得更小巧。
Water clocks used water to measure time at night.
晚上用水钟来计时。
We're the capital of clocks and watches, after all!
毕竟，我们是钟表之都！
Today's state-of-the-art atomic clocks have proven Einstein right.
当今先进的原子时钟已经证明了爱因斯坦是对的。
These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China but they failed to keep accurate time.
这些钟虽然在中东和中国很受欢迎，但它们不能准确计时。
The second day I set two clocks, one on my night table, and one out in the hallway.
第二天，我设置了两个时钟，一个放在床头柜，另一个放在走廊。
To deal with this, these countries turn the clocks back one hour: 1 o'clock goes back to 12 o'clock.
为了解决这个问题，这些国家把时钟拨回1小时：1点回到12点。
There are about a hundred things in the museum to see: clocks which have been telling the time for six hundred years, Roman money, some of the earliest books in the world, including Shakespeare's own works.
博物馆里有大约一百件东西可看：计时已有六百年的钟表、罗马货币、世界上一些最早的书籍，包括莎士比亚的作品。
Is the drone "pilot" who clocks off after a day's work a legitimate target for those he has been hunting down?
对于那些被他追捕的人来说，在一天的工作结束后打卡下班的无人机“飞行员”是一个合法的目标吗？
The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished and clocks showed the same time all over the country.
准时运行铁路的需求意味着废除地方时间，统一全国各地的时间。
Unlike the original form used in early pendulum clocks, the anchor escapement permitted the pendulum to travel in a very small arc.
与在早期摆钟中使用的原始形式不同，锚擒纵装置允许钟摆沿非常小的弧线运动。
钟表为什么都是顺时针转的？
Atomic Clocks Show Gravity Slowing time.
原子钟(Atomic Clocks)表明重力能减慢时间。
The world of clocks and watches was a closed one.
钟表业界是一个封闭的世界。
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster.
电脑芯片的时钟不再那么快了。
Women aren't the only ones who have biological clocks.
不是只有女人才有生理时钟。
Women aren't the only ones who have biological clocks.
不是只有女人才有生理时钟。
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