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Перевод: clockwork speek clockwork


[прилагательное]
точный; заводной;
[существительное]
часовой механизм


Тезаурус:

  1. ("And even as wheels in harmony of clockwork so turn that the first, to whoso noteth it, seemeth still, and the last to fly")
  2. Both were subject to easily measured norms, timetables and co-ordinated planning: therefore of all systems they seemed to be the most suitable for the immediate application of Taylorism and what Lenin called "the precision of clockwork".
  3. She might drown on one of those night swims she takes after the headlines on the nine o'clock news, regular as clockwork, right up to December."
  4. The precision and complexity of an eagle's eye or a swallow's wing couldn't emerge without clockwork rules for what is laid down when.
  5. I didn't like her clockwork elephants.
  6. One I specially like was a clockwork bathing lady who jumps about when you turn the key in her back.
  7. The linguistic inventiveness of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962), for example, highlights an admiration for Joyce which its author shows less clearly elsewhere in his work.
  8. The discoverer and producer of the English folk-rock group Fairport Convention, Boyd also collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange.
  9. Pemberton-Billing's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect (49), and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time.
  10. But these same people always say, "That ran like clockwork, Harvey" or "What a great "do" that was, it looked terrific" and so on.
  11. They were doing a sort of Nordic cha cha cha with Dutch doll movements, hands and feet turned out at right angles and clockwork jerks of the head.
  12. The tape was driven by either an electric or clockwork motor and the writing head was supplied with ink from a reservoir by siphon action, as the tape was being driven.
  13. It seems almost like the beginning of time when visitors to Welford Road first saw dear old Dusty tee up the ball, meticulously pace his couple of steps back and sideways, pause, take a deep breath, glance at the target and then, slick as clockwork, sidle up and caress the ball between the posts.

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