1. While economic recessions hit some sectors hard, others go on like clockwork, or even experience growth. 当经济衰退重创一些行业时，另外一些行业却向上发展，像钟表机构，甚至在经历增长。
2. The president's trip is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute. 总统的行程安排得极其周密，每一件事情都事先安排到了分钟。
3. Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on strike. 每年秋天很准时地，俄勒冈州比弗顿的琳达·克伦茨都会感觉自己的大脑罢工了。
4. Magazines and other periodicals will be delivered to your door like clockwork, whether you read them or not. 无论你是读还是不读，杂志和一些期刊会像时钟一样准时的送到你家门口。
5. A few astronomers thought they could see even more of a dinosaur-cosmos link, a pattern of mass extinctions occurring like clockwork in the geologic record. 一些天文学家认为他们可以看到更多的恐龙与宇宙之间的联系，这种大规模灭绝的模式就像地质记录上的时钟一样。
