From the hall the clock calling out the quarter hour, then a moment of stillness - time stalling - before, faintly, the clock in her study responded.

客厅传来钟表敲打刻点的声音，接下来是短暂的静止——时间的停止，直到书房里的钟表微弱地做出了回应。

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Captain Alison will set out at eight o 'clock so we shall have plenty of time.

艾利森船长将于8点钟启航，因此我们有充裕的时间。

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Captain Alison will set out at eight o 'clock, so we'll have plenty of time.

艾利森船长将于8点钟启航，因此我们有充裕的时间。

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United ran down the clock with comfort - now time may also be running out for Ancelotti.

BBC: Man Utd 2-1 Chelsea (agg 3-1)

Built-in dolls come out of the clock at noon each day to dance around and tell the time.

UNESCO: Culture

Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.

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