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| Processed by: | richwarm (2022-11-07 03:14:50 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 71774 >> By clicking on the push buttons, the hands of the chronograph (seconds, minutes, hours) can be started, stopped, or reset to zero. 轻点按钮，计时器的指针（秒针、分针和时针）即可启动、停止或归零。 A rival could show its hand any time up to Day 60, which would reset the takeover timetable to zero. 在这60天内，对手随时可以提出竞争的条件，这将使整个收购时间表归零。 一切归零。 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zero%20out ------------------------------------- Editor: 1) "zero out", as defined in Merriam-Webster, is about removing something (especially funds) so that nothing remains, whereas 归零, in its literal sense, is typically about changing the display to read "zero" WITHOUT removing anything. Neither of the examples provided involves the removal of funds (or anything else); rather, they are about setting timers to zero. In other words, in those examples, zero means "starting point for timing" not "absence of funds etc." Another example: 1999/8/21為 GPS （全球定位系統）計時器歸零日。 1999/8/21: Global Positioning System timers reset to zero. I think "reset to zero" is a good match for 归零, whereas it seems that "zero out" is, at best, appropriate only sometimes. 2) Figurative usage: 嬰兒油雖然帶來極大的限制，卻也帶來極大的自由。許多舞蹈技巧雖然都派不上用場，舞者必須「歸零」，但它也帶來新的可能性。 While baby oil imposes serious limitations, it also brings great freedom. Many dance skills become useless in this environment, and dancers must effectively start from scratch-but many new possibilities also arise. [They put baby oil on the floor to create a frictionless surface.] 希望中央歸零思考， 以一致的基準點制定出更合理公平的分配制度， the central government should completely re-think its revenue sharing philosophy and formulate consistent criteria for determining a fair distribution. 劉興欽表示，在人生旅途的沙灘上，他不要有與別人相同的足跡，也不要有與自己完全相同的腳印。海水沖走了沙灘上的足跡，一切可以歸零，從新開始，他不在乎從頭學起，只在乎內心想學就好。 Liu notes that as you walk across the sands on the beach of life, it's best neither to follow the tracks of others nor walk in one's old footprints. The ocean's waves wash away all traces of the past, so that everything returns to new beginnings. It doesn't bother him that he has to start all over again. He's just listening to what the voice inside is telling him to do. 四十多歲，放下既有的一切成就，重新歸零，吳興文認為儘管北京的競爭壓力很大，但是「這裡的可能性也大」。 Eventually he hooked up as a consultant to Pinnacle. Having started from scratch at over 40 years of age, Wu acknowledges that Beijing is intensely competitive, but he points out that the opportunities are also big. 為了達到導演的要求，林秀偉把自己歸零，重新當一個學生。 In order to satisfy the demands of the director, Lin started all over from scratch as if she were a student. |
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# 歸零 归零 [gui1 ling2] /to reset to zero; to zero out/ + 歸零 归零 [gui1 ling2] /to reset to zero/(fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one/ |