| [/klɔk; klɑk/] n 用法:
1 instrument for measuring and showing time (not carried or worn like a watch) 时钟. 用法:
2 (infml) instrument (eg a taxi meter or a milometer) for measuring and recording things other than time 计量和记录仪器（如计程车计费表或里程表）:
a second-hand car with 20000 miles on the clock 里程表上显示已行驶20000英里的二手车. 用法:
3 (idm 习语) around/round the `clock all day and all night 整天整夜; 夜以继日:
Surgeons are working round the clock to save his life. 外科医生们正在日夜工作以抢救他的生命. *
[attrib 作定语] Doctors must provide a round-the-clock service. 必须昼夜不停地有医生应诊. beat the clock => beat1. put the `clock back return to a past age or to old-fashioned ideas, laws, customs, etc 开倒车; 倒行逆施:
The new censorship law will put the clock back (by) 50 years. 新的审查条例是开倒车, 要退回到50年前的水平. put the clock/clocks forward/back (in countries which have official summer time) change the time, usu by one hour, at the beginning/end of summer （夏时制）将时钟拨快[拨回]（通常为一小时）:
Remember to put your clocks back (one hour) tonight. 记住今天晚上把钟拨回（一小时）. watch the clock => watch2. ,work against the `clock work fast in order to finish a task before a certain time （为在某一时间完成任务）加快工作; 抢时间做. |