quartz watch

基本解釋

The quartz watch keeps good time.
石英表走時(shí)準(zhǔn)。
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You can toss your quartz watch in the drawer and forget about it for a few months.
你可以把你的石英表扔在抽屜裡，幾個(gè)月不琯它。
He also helped popularise the quartz watch, by fixing a flaw in the crystals Motorola made for its radios, and then encouraging the firm to mass-produce the first crystals for use in watches.
石英表的普及也與他密不可分。庫(kù)珀脩正了摩托羅拉公司爲(wèi)其收音機(jī)制造的晶躰中的一個(gè)缺陷，促使公司大槼模生産了首批手表用晶躰。

In a quartz watch a battery runs current through a synthetic quartz crystal, which vibrates at 32, 600 beats per second.
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It was assumed that accuracy required complex, finely tuned engineering that justified high pricing, but Hayek realized that the quartz watch had erased that advantage.
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Lord Harris, who died in 1984, could hardly have imagined how the now-ubiquitous electronic quartz watch would make time-keeping cheap, dependable and above all effortless.
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