... down-to-earth:实际的，切实的 kill the clock拖延战术 scrap-newspaper: 可回收的旧 ...
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?拖时间
... hold the clock弄清时间 kill the clock拖时间 put back the clock把钟调慢 ...
双语例句
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Then after the other team missed a shot, our center grabbed the ball so we could pass it around to killtheclock until all the time was gone.
这时对方球队投篮不中，我们的中锋随即抢下球来，于是我们就传球直到拖完全部时间。
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Once you succeed in getting the job into the foreground, you can either terminate (or kill) it, or take some other action, in this case, let's use Ctrl-c to terminate our 'clock.'