clockwork

n.

（玩具、钟表等上面的）发条装置；钟表机械；

like clockwork顺利地；极有规律性和准确性地

1. She arrives every day at five, (as) regular as clockwork.
   她每天五点钟到，极有规律。
2. The milkman calls at seven-thirty every morning, regular as clockwork.
   送奶人极有规律地在早晨7：30送来牛奶。
3. We can take a fairly big supply of clockwork types again this year.
   我们今年可望再订购相当数量的“发条装置型”。
4. After the clockwork of the watch was cleaned, the watch kept perfect time.
   那块表的发条装置擦干净后，走起来就非常精确了。

Clockwork
The clockwork muse: The predictability of artistic change.
A clockwork web: circadian timing in brain and periphery, in health and disease.
Noisy clockwork: time series analysis of population fluctuations in animals.
Beyond a Clockwork Orange: Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary Through Reading.
Cyanobacterial circadian clockwork: roles of KaiA, KaiB and the kaiBC promoter in regulating KaiC
Minireview: Entrainment of the suprachiasmatic clockwork in diurnal and nocturnal mammals.
Horst, Cobb, & Meara 1998 – Beyond a Clockwork Orange- Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary through Reading.pdf
Functional Characterization of Phytochrome Interacting Factor 3 for the Arabidopsis thaliana Circadian Clockwork
Analysis of Clock Proteins in Mouse SCN Demonstrates Phylogenetic Divergence of the Circadian Clockwork and Resetting Mechanisms