clockwork

美 [?klɑk?w?rk] 　英 [?kl?k?w??(r)k]

• n.（有類似時鐘齒輪和發(fā)條裝置的）機械；齒輪發(fā)條裝置
• 網(wǎng)絡時鐘機構；鐘表裝置；鐘表機構

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例句

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

一開始我們以為上錯車了，心像發(fā)條一樣繃緊了。

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

現(xiàn)在，象時鐘機構一樣，銀行家和政治家極盡所能地企圖阻止這項收費生效。

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

在任何戰(zhàn)斗結束時，若發(fā)條馬在該戰(zhàn)斗中曾攻擊或阻擋，則移去一個指示物。

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

你應該看見輪廓醒目的植物細胞，它們形似時鐘機構，生動鮮明，動作不停。

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

銀行紓困渠道將是唯一精確運轉的貨幣傳導機制。

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.

當然，兩者都被視為以兩位數(shù)穩(wěn)步增長的中國經(jīng)濟的副產(chǎn)品，但多年來失去的是愛心。

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，他將這塊煤塊塞進鐘件的中央，再把它全部放在皮革上，然后再把它緊緊地裹起來，裹成一個繭形。

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.

他以為：在人腦機件里，有兩個朝相反方向轉動的齒輪。一個載著想象，另一個載著肉體的反應。

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個時間線，把這些發(fā)條童話（指zelda系列）糅合成一個協(xié)調的整體，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.

在圖書出版業(yè)，有些慣例就像上了發(fā)條一樣一絲不差：精裝書首先發(fā)行，一年后是平裝書上市。

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，圖書館每年都會準時收到七百元。

This project went like clockwork, just as you wish.

項目進展得非常順利，正如你所希望的一樣。

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

東京和附近郊縣，地震打亂了平常準點出發(fā)的公交系統(tǒng)。

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

快速喬治！把船駛進池塘里在發(fā)條耗盡之前。

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

適應性——可以建立一個可調節(jié)的鐘控系統(tǒng)來預定刺激物。

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

只要將“發(fā)條誘餌裝置”和一盞普通的“電燈”組合在一起，你甚至能讓整條漆黑的隧道亮如白晝！

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

所有復雜體集結在一起形成一個完整的統(tǒng)一體，介乎刻板精確的齒輪和華美自然的荒原之間。

Those checks came once a year like clockwork .

那些支票準確無誤的一年一到。

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

梅斯先生負責組織學校戲劇團的時候，一切進展都十分順利。

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

可適應——人們可以建造一個類似鐘表裝置的系統(tǒng)來對預設的激勵信號進行響應。

He is home by six every day regular as clockwork .

他每天六點回家，非常準時。

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

比發(fā)條機器人更好玩的東西是幾百英尺高的發(fā)條機器人。

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

不管你是否閱讀它們，雜志和其他一些期刊都會有規(guī)律的被投遞到你的家門。

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

目前，許多Linux開發(fā)者在和Ubuntu一致的基礎上規(guī)律地每六個月提供一次升級。

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

在位于倫敦東北部的Hackney的Clockwork藥房，你在嬰兒乳液和姆囊炎藥膏之間就可以找到它。

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

我們能理解順序的鐘表系統(tǒng)，而非線性網(wǎng)絡系統(tǒng)卻是道地的難解之謎。

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

如果我們把金融體系中的公用事業(yè)部分，狹義定義為支付系統(tǒng)的管理，其運行方式像時鐘一樣可靠。

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

安東尼·伯吉斯《發(fā)條橙子》中的一段文章，電腦認為不能理解。

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

鐘表般的精確邏輯——也即機械的邏輯——只能用來建造簡單的裝置。

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.

我們的身體像鐘表一樣運轉，為了證明這個觀點，我們能告訴你，每天你大概在什么時間做什么。

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

這一理論會像牛頓提出的宇宙精確運行機制一樣在很大程度上改變人們的科學思考（方式）。

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

克里斯托弗?諾蘭的兩條胳膊看上去與常人無異，但它們會隨意撲閃個不停，如上了發(fā)條的玩偶。

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

當我們遇到一個漂亮的讓你印象深刻的女人，我們感受到的吸引力是人類本能的反應。

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

由一個標準“發(fā)條誘餌裝置”和“奇跡藥”制成，在你受傷時這個小玩意會自動感知并且使用適當的劑量！

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

我們這次的產(chǎn)品促銷進行地十分順利，完全沒有任何差錯。

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

《發(fā)條橙》從第一人的敘述角度講述了一個看似有失偏頗而又荒誕的故事。

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

機械鐘表一出現(xiàn)，人們便開始認為他們的大腦“像鐘表般”運作。

Overall, the system is working like clockwork.

總之，系統(tǒng)進展很順利。

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

天體的運動規(guī)律和巖石的確鑿證據(jù)給了以上說法提供了有力的證明。

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

時鐘宇宙：艾薩克?牛頓，英國皇家學會，現(xiàn)代世界的誕生。

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

在過去40年間，米洛早已不是第一個照搬發(fā)條橙經(jīng)典造型的藝人。