clockwork

clockwork

美 [ˈklɑkˌwɜrk] 　英 [ˈklɒkˌwɜː(r)k]

• n.（有类似时钟齿轮和发条装置的）机械；齿轮发条装置
• 网络时钟机构；钟表装置；钟表机构

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In the beginning we thought that on the wrong car, and like clockwork, like the heart of the tension.

一开始我们以为上错车了，心像发条一样绷紧了。

Now, like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect.

现在，象时钟机构一样，银行家和政治家极尽所能地企图阻止这项收费生效。

At the end of any combat in which Clockwork Steed attacked or blocked, remove one of these counters.

在任何战斗结束时，若发条马在该战斗中曾攻击或阻挡，则移去一个指示物。

You were supposed to see a vivid, restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells.

你应该看见轮廓醒目的植物细胞，它们形似时钟机构，生动鲜明，动作不停。

The bank-bailout channel will be the only monetary transmission mechanism to function like clockwork.

银行纾困渠道将是唯一精确运转的货币传导机制。

Sure, both are seen as byproducts of a clockwork double-digit growth Chinese economy but what's been lost over the years is a sense of love.

当然，两者都被视为以两位数稳步增长的中国经济的副产品，但多年来失去的是爱心。

Then he tucked the coal into the center of the clockwork, and placed it all on the skin, and wrapped it up tight into a cocoon shape.

然后，他将这块煤块塞进钟件的中央，再把它全部放在皮革上，然后再把它紧紧地裹起来，裹成一个茧形。

He thought: In the clockwork of the head, two cogwheels turn opposite each other. On the one, images; on the other, the body's reactions.

他以为：在人脑机件里，有两个朝相反方向转动的齿轮。一个载着想象，另一个载着肉体的反应。

Nintendo supposedly keeps a timeline that ties these clockwork fairy tales together into some sort of coherent whole, but I don't buy it.

任天堂可能想要保持一个时间线，把这些发条童话（指zelda系列）糅合成一个协调的整体，但我不相信。

It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback.

在图书出版业，有些惯例就像上了发条一样一丝不差：精装书首先发行，一年后是平装书上市。

In 1962 he got four hundred dollars, and for the rest of the decade the library received seven hundred dollars a year like clockwork.

到了一九六二年，他收到四百元，此后十年中，图书馆每年都会准时收到七百元。

This project went like clockwork, just as you wish.

项目进展得非常顺利，正如你所希望的一样。

In Tokyo and its suburbs, the quake knocked out much of the usually clockwork-reliable public-transportation system.

东京和附近郊县，地震打乱了平常准点出发的公交系统。

Quick George! Put the boat into the pond before the clockwork runs out.

快速乔治！把船驶进池塘里在发条耗尽之前。

Adaptable -- It is possible to build a clockwork systemthatcan adjust to predetermined stimuli.

适应性——可以建立一个可调节的钟控系统来预定刺激物。

By combining the Clockwork Decoy and a common electric light, you can illuminate even the tenebrous tunnels!

只要将“发条诱饵装置”和一盏普通的“电灯”组合在一起，你甚至能让整条漆黑的隧道亮如白昼！

All complex things taken together form an unbroken continuum between the extremes of stark clockwork gears and ornate natural wilderness.

所有复杂体集结在一起形成一个完整的统一体，介乎刻板精确的齿轮和华美自然的荒原之间。

Those checks came once a year like clockwork .

那些支票准确无误的一年一到。

When Mr Mays had the organizing of the school plays they used to run like clockwork.

梅斯先生负责组织学校戏剧团的时候，一切进展都十分顺利。

Adaptable -- It is possible to build a clockwork system that can adjust to predetermined stimuli.

可适应——人们可以建造一个类似钟表装置的系统来对预设的激励信号进行响应。

He is home by six every day regular as clockwork .

他每天六点回家，非常准时。

The only thing more fun than a clockwork robot is a clockwork robot hundreds of feet high.

比发条机器人更好玩的东西是几百英尺高的发条机器人。

Magazines and other periodicals will be delivered to your door like clockwork, whether you read them or not.

不管你是否阅读它们，杂志和其他一些期刊都会有规律的被投递到你的家门。

As it currently stands, many Linux developers update on a consistent basis with Ubuntu getting one ever 6 months like clockwork.

目前，许多Linux开发者在和Ubuntu一致的基础上规律地每六个月提供一次升级。

At the Clockwork Pharmacy in Hackney, north-east London, you can find it between the baby lotion and the bunion plasters.

在位于伦敦东北部的Hackney的Clockwork药房，你在婴儿乳液和姆囊炎药膏之间就可以找到它。

Sequential clockwork systems we understand; nonlinear web systems are unadulterated mysteries.

我们能理解顺序的钟表系统，而非线性网络系统却是道地的难解之谜。

If we define the utility parts of the financial system narrowly, as management of the payment system, it works like clockwork.

如果我们把金融体系中的公用事业部分，狭义定义为支付系统的管理，其运行方式像时钟一样可靠。

Passages from Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange were deemed incomprehensible by the computer.

安东尼·伯吉斯《发条橙子》中的一段文章，电脑认为不能理解。

Clockwork logic -- the logic of the machines -- will only build simple contraptions.

钟表般的精确逻辑——也即机械的逻辑——只能用来建造简单的装置。

Our bodies run like clockwork, and just to prove it, we can show you what you're meant to be doing and at what time of day.

我们的身体像钟表一样运转，为了证明这个观点，我们能告诉你，每天你大概在什么时间做什么。

The theory could transform scientific thinking much as did Sir Isaac Newton's image of the universe as a clockwork mechanism.

这一理论会像牛顿提出的宇宙精确运行机制一样在很大程度上改变人们的科学思考（方式）。

His two arms looked normal, but they would fly out randomly, like a clockwork doll's.

克里斯托弗•诺兰的两条胳膊看上去与常人无异，但它们会随意扑闪个不停，如上了发条的玩偶。

When we encounter a beautiful woman who makes a hell of a first impression, the attraction we feel is clockwork human behavior.

当我们遇到一个漂亮的让你印象深刻的女人，我们感受到的吸引力是人类本能的反应。

Made from a standard Clockwork Decoy and the Wonder Drug, this little miracle senses when you're hurt and applies the appropriate dosage!

由一个标准“发条诱饵装置”和“奇迹药”制成，在你受伤时这个小玩意会自动感知并且使用适当的剂量！

our sales promotion went off like clockwork. there were no mistakes at all.

我们这次的产品促销进行地十分顺利，完全没有任何差错。

A Clockwork Orange is written in first person perspective from a seemingly biased and unreliable source.

《发条橙》从第一人的叙述角度讲述了一个看似有失偏颇而又荒诞的故事。

When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating "like clockwork. "

机械钟表一出现，人们便开始认为他们的大脑“像钟表般”运作。

Overall, the system is working like clockwork.

总之，系统进展很顺利。

The regularity of celestial clockwork and the solid probity of rock give these co-ordinates a reassuring constancy.

天体的运动规律和岩石的确凿证据给了以上说法提供了有力的证明。

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World.

时钟宇宙：艾萨克•牛顿，英国皇家学会，现代世界的诞生。

Minogue was by no means the first to borrow A Clockwork Orange's iconography over the past 40 years.

在过去40年间，米洛早已不是第一个照搬发条橙经典造型的艺人。