clock
clock 英 [klɒk] 美 [klɑk]
n. 时钟
进行时:clocking 过去式:clocked 过去分词:clocked 第三人称单数:clocks 名词复数:clocks
- 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.
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- n. 时钟
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1. The clock struck twelve。
时钟已敲响十二点。
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2. The clock is fast/slow.
这钟走得快了╱慢了。
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3. the clock face
钟面
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4. It was ten past six by the clock.
此钟显示 ，六点十分了。
- clock (n.1) "machine to measure and indicate time mechanically" (since late 1940s also electronically), late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from Middle Dutch clocke (Dutch klok) "a clock," from Old North French cloque (Old French cloke, Modern French cloche "a bell"), from Medieval Latin clocca "bell," which probably is from Celtic (compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg "a bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin). Ultimately of imitative origin.
- clock (n.2) "ornament pattern on a stocking," 1520s, probably identical with clock (n.1) in its older sense and meaning "bell-shaped ornament," though clock seems never to have been used for "bell" in English. Related: Clocked; clock-stocking.
- clock (v.) "to time by the clock," 1883, from clock (n.1). The slang sense of "hit, sock" is 1941, originally Australian, probably from earlier slang clock (n.) "face" (1923). To clock in "register one's arrival by means of a mechanical device with a clock" is from 1914. Related: Clocked; clocking.
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