clockwork的意思|clockwork的解释-里氏词典

clockwork ['klɒkwә:k]

n. 钟表装置, 发条装置

[电] 时钟开关

The milkman calls at seven-thirty every morning, regular as clockwork.
送奶人极有规律地在早晨7：30送来牛奶。
She arrives every day at five, (as) regular as clockwork.
她每天五点钟到, 极有规律.
The landlady was sent out for a two-hour walk with the dog, no matter what the weather; whereupon the niece and the respectable looking middle-aged man promptly went upstairs. He was as regular as clockwork.
无论天气如何，房东太太要带狗出去散步两个小时，这时那侄女便和一个看上去很不体面的中年男人上了楼。那人每天也真够准时的。

clockwork

[ noun ]
any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock
<noun.artifact>

Clockwork \Clock"work`\ (-w[^u]rk`), n.
The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a
clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

The bomb's clockwork mechanism malfunctioned, police said.
It outlined a clockwork convention, with "spontaneous demonstrations" included and timed to the minute.
Sillitoe sets up the clockwork, and just lets it unwind; the reader quickly ceases to care who does what to whom, and the author gives no indication that he cares either.
One is whether the mutations in mitochondrial genes occur like clockwork.
Wearing a red satin hat and jacket with a white ruffled collar, he kneels at a brass writing table, poised to entertain his guests. His "brain" is in brass cams and clockwork motors in a large chest underneath the table.

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