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你家有表吗?我们的表里的发条装置就叫"clockwork",这也是钟表为什么能准确的运行,但是我们今天的习语里的"clockwork"表达的意思和发条其实没有什么关系,那么这个习语是用来形容什么呢?你能猜到吗? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Today we’ll be learning the idiom: like clockwork. It means to do something very regularly, or at exactly the planned times. If someone does something like clockwork, that means you can expect them to do it always at the same time. You can use it like this: He does it like clockwork. / They did it like clockwork. / It runs like clockwork. C: Many people go to work everyday with the same morning routines. They usually wake up, wash up, have breakfast and then go to work at their companies. You can say that they do this everyday like clockwork. Maybe everyday at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, the delivery man comes to your building. He does this regularly and never misses a day. So he can be expected to show up again the n...