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
- Wakes sleeper at preset time. Synchronize your body clock by getting up and going to bed at the same time every day.
在事先调整好的时间到时把睡觉人叫醒的时钟。调整好你的生物钟,每天按固定时间睡觉和起床。 - He said: Light is not just important to the visual system, it helps regulate the brightness detectors which affect our body clock and many aspects of our health.
他说:光不仅对视觉系统起到很重要的作用,它对调节体内亮度探测器也有帮助作用,从而会影响我们的身体生物钟,还对我们身体的许多方面的健康有益。 - A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and its effects on energy and alertness, can help pinpoint the different times of day when most of us perform our best at specific tasks, from resolving conflicts to thinking creatively.
越来越多的研究表明,多加重视生物钟及其对人的精力和清醒度的影响有助于我们精确找到大多数人一天中从事具体活动无论是解决矛盾还是创造性思维的最佳时间。 - Putting food into an empty stomach helps synchronize the body clock.
空腹吃食物帮助人体时钟准时。 - 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。 - 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。 - He says it helps turn energy into sugar to be utilised by cells in the body and that it also plays a role in controlling the body clock.
他说,这有助于利用体内细胞把能量转化成糖,并且对控制人体生物钟也起作用。 - 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。 - When the body clock can synchronize the rhythms of its natural processes in response to light and other natural influences, it gives us an edge in daily life, says Kay.
史蒂夫•凯说:当生物钟在光线以及其他自然因素影响下,与生理节奏同步时,它便会为我们的日常生活增添砝码。 - Whenever you alter the times you get up and go to bed, you're disrupting your body clock.
一旦改变起床和睡觉的时间,就会扰乱你的生物钟。