One moves from the task-oriented time consciousness of the peasant (working on job after another, as time and light permit) and the time-filling busyness of the domestic servant (who always had something to do) to an effort to maximize product per unit of time.
一个人从农民的以任务为导向的时间意识(在时间和光线允许的情况下，一个接一个地工作)和家仆(他们总是有事情可做)的忙碌时间转移到每单位时间最大化产品的努力。
relentless pressure 无情压力
mechanical ingenuity 精巧机械
conquerors seized them as especially precious spoils of war
spoil 战利品
Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature’ s time
sustained an interest 保持兴趣
Once known, it spread rapidly, driving out water clocks but not solar dials, which were needed to check the new machines against the timekeeper of last resort
resort 采用的方法
All this was compatible with older devices so long as there was only one authoritative timekeeper; but with urban growth and the multiplication of time signals, discrepancy brought discord and strife.
所有这些都与旧的设备兼容，只要只有一个权威的计时员；但随着城市的增长和时间信号的倍增，差异带来了不和冲突。
was compatible with 与。。兼容
to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging
to say nothing of 更不必说
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