| 释义 |
▪ I. ˈstop-watch, n.
A watch which indicates fractions of a second by a hand that may be instantly stopped by pressure on a spring or catch, so as to record an exact moment or period of time; chiefly used for timing races.
1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 166 Provided he is truly try'd by a stop Watch. 1867in C. A. Wheeler Sportascrapiana 214 Place a practical man with one of M'Cabe's stop-watches at the finishing point. 1888E. Custer Tenting on Plains xii, The General, with his stop⁓watch in hand.
b. fig. Also attrib.
1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life vii. lxi, Automata—people who regulate all their thoughts, words, and actions, by the stop-watch. 1817Examiner No. 505. 554 The uncle..being a stop-watch person always in a hurry. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Old Benchers, He was at once..his guide, stop⁓watch, auditor, treasurer. 1896Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. v. 228 The critic looks only at the weak parts, and he judges the weak parts only by the stop-watch. [Cf. Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xii.]
▪ II. stop-watch, v.|ˈstɒpwɒtʃ|
[f. the n.]
trans. To time with a stop-watch.
1973J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 19 We being timed?.. Stop-watched? 1977B. Freemantle Charlie Muffin xvii. 166 Cuthbertson..had insisted on final rehearsals..stop-watching the journey and testing the surveillance. |