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time ball 報時球。

time base

The compound comprises a main building , a stable block and the special feature of a two - storey time - signal tower , where a time ball was dropped at 1pm every day until 1907 to enable ships in the harbour to check their chronometers 主樓本為一所兩層高建筑,后于1920年代加建一層。日治期間,水警總部前草地下建有大規模地下通道二次大戰后,遂封閉地下通道,及重鋪草地。

Dad : for what ? to 1 ) chase a stupid dream ? big - time ball player in england ? come on , it ` s bullshit 父親:存錢干嘛?追求一個蠢夢想嗎?成為英格蘭的明星球員嗎?拜托,那些都是唬爛。

Three years later , officials added a time ball to count down the seconds to the new year 三年以后,政府為新年慶典增加了一個計時球來倒數新年到來的時刻。

But the tradition of dropping a time ball reportedly began in the eighteen hundreds in england 但是據記載,用落下球表示時間在18世紀英國就開始了。

Its use diminished in 1907 when the time ball apparatus was removed to signal hill 其作用于一九七年大包米的訊號塔落成啟用后而消失。

Time balls were used in many ports during the nineteenth century 在19世紀,時間球幾乎在每個港口都可以看到。