body clock
英 [ˈbɒdi klɒk]
美 [ˈbɑːdi klɑːk]
n. (人体)生物钟
牛津词典
noun
- (人体)生物钟
the natural tendency that your body has to sleep, eat, etc. at particular times of the day
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (人体)生物钟,生理时钟
Yourbody clockis the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.- Jet lag is caused because the body clock does not readjust immediately to the time change.
由于人体生物钟不能迅速对时差作出调整,因而产生了飞机时差反应。
- Jet lag is caused because the body clock does not readjust immediately to the time change.
双语例句
- Research into circadian rhythms has led to the discovery of a new and unanticipated molecular cog in the human body clock.
对生理节律的研究,发现了人体生物钟上一个不曾预料到的新分子齿轮。 - Artificial light is known to disrupt the body clock by delaying the production of the sleep hormone melatonin.
人造光会通过推迟睡眠荷尔蒙褪黑激素的产生扰乱生物钟。 - They have found previously unknown cells in the eye known as the retinal ganglion cells, that respond to blue light which shifts the body clock to new time zones.
他们先前已经在眼睛中发现了没有被人们认知的细胞,叫做视网膜神经节细胞,这种细胞对蓝光起反应,把人体生物钟调向新的时区。 - Jet lag is caused because the body clock does not readjust immediately to the time change.
由于人体生物钟不能迅速对时差作出调整,因而产生了飞机时差反应。 - Experiments suggest that season of birth dramatically affects the way the speed at which the body clock ticks.
实验表明,出生的季节会极大地影响人体生物钟运转的速度。 - This prevents your natural body clock from waking you up in the middle of the night.
这可以防止你的天然生物钟在半夜把你唤醒。 - And although that may sound pretty unrelated to your own body clock, the team showed that most of these genes are found in mammals, too.
尽管这听起来和生物钟不甚相关,研究团队表明这些基因也大都可以在哺乳动物身上找到。 - The problem with office lighting is that it is not made up of 'blue' light, which is the wavelength of light you get from the sun and which controls your body clock.
办公室照明所存在的问题是,它不是由你从太阳得到的光的波长且能掌控你生物钟的‘蓝光’组成。 - My body clock is all wrong.
我的生物钟紊乱了。 - That's when I discovered that our body clock could be controlled externally. '
然后我发现原来我们的生物钟可以从外部控制。
