| 英语单词 | clock |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [klɒk] 美 [klɑːk] |
| 中文释义 | n.时钟 v.计时;打卡 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The clock shows half past two. (2) This clock has outlasted several owners. (3) The silence was succeeded by the striking of a clock. (4) There must be something wrong with my clock. (5) Workers usually clock off at 5.30. (6) I usually clock in at 8 o'clock. (7) He clocked 9.8 seconds for the 100 metres. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 时钟的针指著两点半。 (2) 这座时钟的寿命比它的几个主人的寿命都长。 (3) 时钟鸣响声打破了寂静。 (4) 我的钟一定是坏了。 (5) 工人们通常在5时30分下班。 (6) 我通常8点钟签到。 (7) 他100米跑了9. |
| vocabulary简明 | A clock is a device that keeps time, displaying hours, minutes, and often seconds. If there's a clock in your calculus classroom, it can sometimes be hard to keep from watching the minutes tick by. |
| vocabulary扩展 | You might have an antique grandfather clock in your hall or an alarm clock beside your bed. Clocks are either analog, with hands that move around a numbered circular face, or digital, showing the time in digits, like 4:27. If you clock your friend as she runs a mile, it means you keep track of how long it takes her. Originally, the word was clokke, "clock with bells," from the Medieval Latin clocca, "bell." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]钟;时钟 A clock is an instrument, for example in a room or on the outside of a building, that shows what time of day it is.
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]考勤钟;上下班计时钟 A time clock in a factory or office is a device that is used to record the hours that people work. Each worker puts a special card into the device when they arrive and leave, and the times are recorded on the card. [oft n N]
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词](汽车的)车速表,里程表 In a car, the clock is the instrument that shows the speed of the car or the distance it has travelled. [usu sing] [mainly BRIT 主英]
4 [VERB 动词]达到(特定的时间或速度) To clock a particular time or speed in a race means to reach that time or speed. [V n]
5 [VERB 动词]为…计时;为…测速 If something or someone is clocked at a particular time or speed, their time or speed is measured at that level. [ [ [usu passive]
6 [VERB 动词]注意到;看到 If you clock something, you notice or see it. [V n] [BRIT 英] [INFORMAL 非正式]
7 See also:alarm clock ;biological clock ;body clock ;cuckoo clock ;grandfather clock ;o'clock ; 8 [PHRASE 短语]与时间赛跑;争分夺秒 If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time. [PHR after v]
9 [PHRASE 短语]提前完成任务 If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended. [V inflects] 10 [PHRASE 短语]不分昼夜;日夜不停 If something is done round the clock or around the clock, it is done all day and all night without stopping. [PHR with v]
11 [PHRASE 短语]倒退;回到以前 If you want to turn the clock back or put the clock back, you want to return to a situation that used to exist, usually because the present situation is unpleasant. [V inflects]
12 [PHRASE 短语](通常指因不耐烦而)不断看时间,老是看钟表 If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible. [V inflects] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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