clockwork
时钟机构
常用释义
英音[ ˈklɒkwɜːk ]
美音[ ˈklɑːkwɜːrk ]
基本释义
- n. 发条装置；钟表装置
- adj. 装有发条的；重复的；可预测的；平稳的，有规律的
例句
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1·While economic recessions hit some sectors hard, others go on like clockwork, or even experience growth.当经济衰退重创一些行业时，另外一些行业却向上发展，像钟表机构，甚至在经历增长。
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2·He is home by six every day regular as clockwork.他每天六点回家，非常准时。来源: 《牛津词典》
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3·The president's trip is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute.总统的行程安排得极其周密，每一件事情都事先安排到了分钟。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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4·The collection then moves on to teenage things I read in school Nineteen Eighty Four, The Handmaid's Tale and A Clockwork Orange.接下来的系列是我在学校读过的青少年读物《1984》、《使女的故事》和《发条橙》。
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5·Has anybody here seen the movie "Clockwork Orange"?在座各位有谁看过电影《发条橙》？
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6·Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on strike.每年秋天很准时地，俄勒冈州比弗顿的琳达·克伦茨都会感觉自己的大脑罢工了。
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7·Magazines and other periodicals will be delivered to your door like clockwork, whether you read them or not.无论你是读还是不读，杂志和一些期刊会像时钟一样准时的送到你家门口。
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8·At the Clockwork Pharmacy in Hackney, north-east London, you can find it between the baby lotion and the bunion plasters.在伦敦东北部哈克尼的 Clockwork 药房，你可以在婴儿润肤露和拇囊炎膏药之间找到它。
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9·He tucked the coal into the center of the clockwork, and placed it all on the skin, and wrapped it up and tight it into a cocoon shape.他把煤块塞进钟形装置的中心，并全部放在表壳上，然后紧紧地裹成一个茧状。
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10·A few astronomers thought they could see even more of a dinosaur-cosmos link, a pattern of mass extinctions occurring like clockwork in the geologic record.一些天文学家认为他们可以看到更多的恐龙与宇宙之间的联系，这种大规模灭绝的模式就像地质记录上的时钟一样。
网络释义
- like clockwork : 顺利地；极有规律性和准确性地
同根词
词根：
clockwork
clockmaker
n
制造或修理钟表者