节目组: The World Says 世界说
节目名称: What if no clocks
V: Hello everyone, welcome to the world says from the VOE foreign languages radio station, I'm Vincent. Today we are bringing you an interesting topic. But … there should be two of us … and my co-presenter hasn't arrived … Sherlock? …. Sherlock! … You're late!
S: Am I? What's the time?
It's time to start the show. Do you actually own a watch?
V: It's time to start the show. Do you actually own a watch?
S: No. I rely on my internal clock – it's pretty good.
V: No, it isn't – you're late!
S: But I'm usually on time. And Good evening everyone, I am Sherlock. Now today, we're talking about what would happen to the world if all the clocks stopped.
V: It seems like that wouldn't worry you much, Sherlock.
S: You're right. I think we're slaves to time, we've got digital clocks on everything – smartphones, computers, microwaves, bus stops, and it's hard to get away from it. Did you know the word time is the most common nouns in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
你知道吗？根据牛津英语词典，time这个单词是英语中最常见的名词。
V: Oh, well, I didn't know that, Vincent! But good timekeeping is extremely important – there are so many things to schedule in a day, and so many deadlines to meet…
S: Tick… tock… tick… tock… Well, before we run out of time Vincent, and that means use it all up , I want to ask you a question, can you tell me what the word 'clock' originally referred to?
V: I know several words refer to this; a pendulum is a stick with a weight on the end that swings regularly from side to side. And a dial is the round part of a clock, but there are dials on loads of things – they aren't just on clocks. And a bell… is… well… a bell!
S: Well, hurry up, Vincent; you're wasting time with all these explanations!
V: That's cheeky coming from you, Sherlock. I think the answer is probably ’bell’.
S: Well, you could be right, because not all timepieces go tick tock. In fact, mechanical clocks and watches are quite recent in the history of timekeeping.
V:倒是确实，如今的机械表和手表都没什么声音。Mechanical means to do with machines. So in the past, before people had mechanical timepieces, how did they know when to arrive at work, for example – or when to finish?
S: They would have looked up at the sky, and observed how the position of the sun, the moon, and the stars changed as time passed.
V: That doesn’t sound very precise! Precise means accurate or exact. It was precise enough for many people.
S: We certainly gain precision but we completely get devolved or divorced from where time originally came from. The time we use was based on the movement of the sun and it's roughly still in sync but… for many societies it wasn't at all relevant to know that it's four o'clock.
V:嗯，我们所利用的时间是基于太阳的运动，大体上都是同步的。但是，对许多群体来说，这与知道现在是4点钟完全不相干。
S: They needed to know how much daylight have I got left, or when is the prayer time I need to observe for completely different reasons, and whilst precision is wonderful it's also very much a straitjacket.
V:Exactly，everybody is dominated by… looking at the watch and smartphone all the time, when we observe people. So we basically became a slave to time.
当我们观察人群的时候，每个人都一直看手表或手机。我们几乎成了时间的奴隶。
V: Well, that's all for today's show, it's time to say goodbye again. We hope you can enjoy and get some useful things from today's program.
S: Please join us again soon. And good news, Vincent, our voice of era, foreign language radio station is starting to recruit, we sincerely invite all English lovers to join us—the world says. If you want to express your views and opinions in English, come and join us, this platform is for you. 期待你的加入
V: 我们诚挚的邀请所有的英语爱好者加入我们。如果你想用英语表达你的见解和看法，和我们一起侃大山，就来加入我们吧，这个平台就是给你准备的。V.O.E 世界说，欢迎你，我是Vincent （I’m Vincent ）感谢制作张燚铭
我们下期再见！
S: And you also can find our program in our WeChat official account时代之声 radio.同时，也欢迎大家关注voe外语广播电台的微信公众号时代之声 radio. I’m Sherlock and I'll be waiting for you next Thursday. Bye~
节目监制：苗世钰
制作：张燚铭
播音：杨晏直 余若天
编辑：杨晏直 余若天
