A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound.

手表停了依然是只手表，还可以重上好。

I thought you said all I had to do was turn the crank.

你不是说只要转动就行吗。

I'll just leave them a message, you know.

我只要给他们短信就好。

He wore it every day, but he never wound it.

他每天都戴，却从未上过。

Clockwork is that mechanism we have for the old fashioned watches.

是我们为老式手表机械装置。

Oh, no, your car needs winding up again!

哦，不，你汽车需了。

Oh, just text her " J. K."

给她信息告她你开玩笑就行了。

" And tweet it out for all the TED viewers out there."

“再推特推给所有 TED 观众。”

The clockwork figures glittered, fantastically precise.

人偶闪闪亮，极为精细。

The steel mallet in the clockwork daddy's hands came down on the boy's head. The clockwork son crumbled forward.

爸爸手上钢制球杆落在男孩头上，儿子向前倒。

As though they've wound you up and you do something.

好像他们给你上了 然后你应声而动。

Every time the doll was wound up it sang beautifully.

每次只要给娃娃上紧，娃娃就会欢快唱歌。

You just move your... - Yeah... arm around to keep it going.

你只要动动手臂...-没错。给表上了它才会动。

Let me just message them and ask how they're doing or say something nice.

我给他们消息，问问他们过得怎么样，或者说些好话。

Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

此刻，由于反作用，他像一架上得太紧时钟一样精疲力竭了。

Clockwork whirred. Cogs turned and meshed, brass warmly glowing.

钟装置嗡嗡地旋转，齿轮转动啮合，黄铜散出温暖光芒。

And I want to say this — folks whose main-springs are busted are better dead.

如果谁身上断了，他就不如死了好。.

I don't know what time their plane gets in, but let me, let me shoot them a text.

我不知道他们什么时候下机，不过我短信问问看吧。

Oh, I am winding an old watch that your mother gave me for Valentine's day.

我在给这块旧表上，是你妈妈送给我情人节礼物。

But how was he to get the materials out of which to make the wheels and the main spring?

但是，如何才能得到制作轮子和主必要材料呢？