round the clock

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Adv.

round the clock - without stopping; "she worked around the clock"around the clock, for 24 hours

Translations

连续24小时连续一昼夜

clock

(klok) noun1. an instrument for measuring time, but not worn on the wrist like a watch. We have five clocks in our house; an alarm clock (= a clock with a ringing device for waking one up in the morning). （时）钟 2. an instrument for measuring speed of a vehicle or distance travelled by a vehicle. My car has 120,000 miles on the clock.里程表 verb to register (a time) on a stopwatch etc. 用秒表记时ˈclockwise adverb in the direction of the movement of the hands of a clock. The children moved clockwise round the room, then anticlockwise.顺时针方向地ˈclockwork noun machinery similar to that of a clock. a toy which works by clockwork.发条装置clock in/out/on/off to register or record time of arriving at or leaving work. 记上下班到离时间clock up to reach a total of. I've clocked up eight thousand miles this year in my car.达到…的总里程like clockwork very smoothly and without faults. Everything went like clockwork. 顺利地，有规律地 round the clock the whole day and the whole night. to work round the clock. 连续24小时，连续一昼夜

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Nonstop. We have been working round the clock to solve this issue with your security system, but it's going to take us another 24 hours to get it back online. Doctors have been working on him around the clock, but his condition is still critical.See also: clock

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Fig. continuously for twenty-four hours at a time. The priceless jewels were guarded around the clock. Grandfather was so sick that he had to have nurses round the clock.See also: clock, round

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around the clock

COMMON If you do something round the clock or around the clock, you do it continuously, throughout the day and night. Fire crews were working round the clock to bring the huge blaze under control. Detectives watched him around the clock. Note: Round-the-clock and around-the-clock can be used before a noun to describe work that is being done continuously, throughout the day and night. Staff alerted police and a round-the-clock surveillance of the four men began. We can't afford to give you around-the-clock protection.See also: clock, round

round (or around) the clock

all day and all night; ceaselessly. 1992 Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover The mountain was…guarded round the clock by a ring of armed soldiers mounted on nervous horses. See also: clock, round

around/round the ˈclock

for twenty-four hours without stopping: The police watched the house round the clock but no one went in or came out. ♢ Her mother needs round-the-clock care and attention.See also: around, clock, round

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Synonyms for round the clock

adv without stopping

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