Clockwork

(noun.) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock.

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• Except in the one grand case of Captain Lennox's offer, everything went on with the regularity of clockwork. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• By compressing or exhausting air through this tube it is obvious that the lever, N, will be raised or depressed, and the clockwork set going accordingly. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The contractions and expansions set in motion the clockwork which marks the rate of consumption. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In France, all is clockwork, all is order. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Under a roll, see Fig. 8, a ribbon of paper is drawn by the clockwork. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The details of the clockwork I leave to the ingenuity of your readers. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Time locks are constructed on the principle of clockwork, so that they cannot be opened even with the proper key until a regulated interval of time has elapsed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The instrument is so constructed that clockwork at the top registers the number of revolutions made by the disk in one second. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This movement of the disks is recorded by clockwork devices on a dial face. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That's the place where we are to lunch; and, by Jove, there's the boy with the basket, punctual as clockwork! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He regarded him as a damaged piece of clockwork, which it would be creditable to his skill to set agoing again. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The printing of the characters is effected in various ways; sometimes by clockwork mechanism and sometimes by the direct action of an electromagnet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There the clockwork, which was to explode her within a certain length of time, was set and she was abandoned. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The quadrant, B, has cogs cut, between which Z slides and stops the motion of A, which is moved, as before, by clockwork. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Today most of the clockwork motor talking machines are built upon the principles disclosed in the Macdonald Spring Motor patent. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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