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里，幾個(gè)月不管它。
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)珀修正了摩托羅拉公司為其收音機(jī)制造的晶體中的一個(gè)缺陷，促使公司大規(guī)模生產(chǎn)了首批手表用晶體。

In a quartz watch a battery runs current through a synthetic quartz crystal, which vibrates at 32, 600 beats per second.
FORBES: Time Is Money
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.
FORBES
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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