The clock, light bulb and opened book are symbols of lapsed time, records and memories of certain periods.

时钟、灯泡、打开了的书本像是隐喻，不管怎样，随著时间的流逝，一个年代发生的事情都将被整理、记录。

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After power resumption, this system calculates the lapsed time of power failure to decide the next appropriate cooking process.

在电源恢复，该系统计算失效时间停电，决定在今后适当的烹调过程。

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New products and production processes are transferred to the developing countries only after a substantial amount of time has lapsed.

只有经过很长时间以后，新产品和新生产流程才转移到发展中国家。

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Staff were asked to take unpaid leave at Christmas and 45 part-time contracts lapsed.

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SpaceX has also released time-lapsed footage of Dragon leaving the International Space Station, which you can watch below.

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At last count I could find eight variations on the "Cheese of the Month club", most of which lapsed about the same time, suggesting they were bought as a block.

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