| 单词 | clock-watching |
| 例句 | I had just graduated college and gotten my first full-time job, and I was accustomed to obsessive clock-watching, terrified of arriving late and making a bad impression. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This clock-watching dialogue underlines a dead giveaway clue in the title. Race against the clock: why is so much TV jumping through time? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Their conversation, complete with biological clock-watching, is a Bechdel test disaster, but the play isn’t really interested in the women, anyway. Review: In Matthew Perry’s First Play, a Chandler Gone to Seed 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Everything else was just endless clock-watching, sitting at the back, getting into trouble, creating some drama for as long as you could, till you got thrown out. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z While the story unfolds at a relatively mañana pace, an endless pulse – or several different ones – gives the piece a restless, clock-watching urgency. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z Delphine laughs a little when I ask whether the change might feed into the notion of "clock-watching" civil servants. The Belgians getting the right to disconnect from work 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z "There's no danger of clock-watching here. Throughout the first two episodes, there are multiple developments and moments fraught with threats that carry you along on their currents." Vigil: Submarine drama explores 'isolating and tense' life and death at sea 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z They also knew that if they asked for permission to stop and get it, clock-watching mission managers would say no. 50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z In our series of letters from African writers, Ghanaian journalist and former government minister Elizabeth Ohene explains why clock-watching in Ghana is a waste of time. The country where everyone is expected to be late 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z France is definitely in clock-watching mode, passing deliberately and even wasting time at the corner already. 36 Years and No World Cup Goals: Peru Eliminated by France 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z By 1966, airlines and other clock-watching businesses tired of such quirks and pushed Congress to pass the Uniform Time Act. Sunshine State: Florida seeks all-year daylight saving time 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z That means long security lines and clock-watching gate waits, just for the opportunity to fold into seats barely big enough for averaged-sized humans. Travel an extra grind for Division I’s smallest schools 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Big picture aside, most of what afflicts us today – cancer, obesity, mental illness, diabetes, stress, auto-immune disorders, heart disease, along with those slow killers: meaninglessness, clock-watching and loneliness – are industrial ailments. I live a healthier life now I’m free of the trappings of modernity | Mark Boyle 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The biological clock-watching begins whenever a female celebrity gets hitched. Perspective | Let Serena Williams’s naked pregnancy photo shoot be the last of its kind 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Our toxic, sedentary lifestyles are causing industrial-scale afflictions of cancer, mental illness, obesity, heart disease, auto-immune disorders and food intolerances, along with those slow killers, loneliness, clock-watching and meaninglessness. Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it | Mark Boyle 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Müller was not clock-watching, wasn’t just waiting for it all to end. Over Beers With Fans, Bayern Munich Delivers a Personal Touch 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Here, Sutherland, clock-watching for the past 20 minutes, apologizes as she cuts the interview short – she has to head to the gym. 'Don't call me grandma': jockey Chantal Sutherland readies for return to saddle 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z By now, I was clock-watching, and inwardly swearing as we joined a long queue to register. A moonlit run after a day of fasting - BBC News 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z These enforced work shifts also interrupt learning and create a kind of clock-watching mentality that is antithetical to the ideals of doctoring. The Real Problem With Medical Internships 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z “City employees are seen as clock-watching government drones by a lot of people,” said Michelle. How To Brand Yourself In Your Resume Summary 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Victory was close enough to start clock-watching, to sneak a peek at the digits ticking down and wonder why the time seemed to be passing so slowly. In women’s hockey gold-medal game, Canada hands U.S. a loss that will be hard to get over 2014-02-21T00:30:00Z All right, Barton was not clock-watching, but the effect was the same. The hazard of hiring ballboys and the possibility of life without them 2013-01-25T15:03:27Z Some tables are languid; others are fidgety and clock-watching. You're the Boss: So Far, Our New Pricing Strategy Is Working 2011-04-18T15:45:59Z It wasn't until he had put in half the morning clock-watching and door-gazing that he stepped outside his wretchedness and took an objective look at his feelings. Mate in Two Moves “But it’d be even dirtier to think of those clock-watching superegos being strapped to kids’ shoulders. The Creature from Cleveland Depths |
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