clocked的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT鍾;時鐘

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.

• He was conscious of a clock ticking...

  他聽到了鐘的嘀嗒聲。

• He also repairs clocks and watches...

  他也修鐘錶。

N-COUNT考勤鍾;上下班計時鐘

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.

• Government workers were made to punch time clocks morning, noon and night.

  公務員早、中、晚都要打卡。

N-COUNT(汽車的)車速表，里程錶

In a car, the clock is the instrument that shows the speed of the car or the distance it has travelled.

• The car had 160,000 miles on the clock...

  里程錶顯示此車已行駛了16萬英里.

• At 240 mph the needle went off the clock.

  車速達到每小時240英里時,里程錶上的指標顯示超出了最高時速。

VERB達到(特定的時間或速度)

To clock a particular time or speed in a race means to reach that time or speed.

• Elliott clocked the fastest time this year for the 800 metres...

  埃利奧特跑出了今年800米的最快速度

• The yacht swayed in 40-knot winds, clocking speeds of 17 knots at times.

  遊艇在風速為40節的大風中搖擺前行，有時航速能達到17節。

VERB為…計時;為…測速

If something or someone is clocked at a particular time or speed, their time or speed is measured at that level.

• He has been clocked at 11 seconds for 100 metres...

  他100米跑了11秒。

• 170-mile-an-hour winds were clocked on a mountaintop in North Carolina.

  在北卡羅來納州一處山頂測得的風速為每小時170英里。

VERB注意到;看到

If you clock something, you notice or see it.

• If there was any scandal in that company, you can be sure that Bobby will have clocked it.

  那家公司有任何醜聞，博比肯定會知道。

PHRASE與時間賽跑;爭分奪秒

If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.

• The emergency services were working against the clock as the tide began to rise...

  開始漲潮了，緊急救援機構正在爭分奪秒地工作。

• It's now become a race against the clock.

  從現在開始要跟時間賽跑。

PHRASE提前完成任務

If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended.

PHRASE不分晝夜;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.

• Rescue services have been working round the clock to free stranded motorists...

  救援部門一直在日夜不停地工作，解救被困司機。

• We can't afford to give you around-the-clock protection.

  我們沒有能力對你提供24小時的保護。

PHRASE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.

• In some ways we wish we could turn the clock back...

  在某些方面，我們希望能回到以前。

• We cannot put back the clock.

  我們無法讓時光倒流。

PHRASE(通常指因不耐煩而)不斷看時間，老是看鐘表

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.

• I started to watch the clock about halfway through the class.

  課大約上了一半，我就開始不停地看時間。