If you open up a mechanical watch, you will see plenty of small cogs in motion.

您打机械表，您会看到许多正在运转的小齿轮。

I kept her pinioned, but released the tension enough for us to kiss.

我一直用小齿轮固定住她，但释放的张力足以让我们亲吻。

Julien tried mechanically to have recourse to his little pistol; but a second gendarme pinioned his arms.

于连机械地想求助于他的小手枪。但是第二个宪兵用小齿轮固定住他的手臂。

Look at the bottom right corner of this video, and you'll see this small cog wheel, if you click on it you'll see speed.

看这个视频的右下角，会看到这个小齿轮，点击它，会看到速度。

His spirit rose to it with a rush; but just as he felt himself poised between the ascending pinions, the door opened and Bob Wade plunged in.

他的精神猛然升起。但在他感觉自己在上升的小齿轮之间保持平衡时，门打，勃韦德跳进去。

It was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies—the cap, the noose, the pinioned arms, the faces that he knew, even beneath that hideous veil.

这像坐在一个满是尸体的地窖里——帽子、套索、带小齿轮的手臂，他认识的面孔，甚至在那面丑陋的面纱下。

At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair.

他终于掌握她的手臂； Grace Poole 给他一根绳子，他用小齿轮将它们固定在她身后：他用手边的更多绳子将她绑在椅子上。

Were I to say such a wheel or such a pinion is not the spring which sets the watch going, can you infer thence that they are not to be found in the watch?

我们说，某一只圆轮或某一只小齿轮不是驱动一只手表的原动力，人们由此得出结论说，这只手表里没有圆轮和齿轮吗？

Like for example, you'd probably learn way more about business by working for a small plumbing company than you would learning about a massive industry that you're a small cog if you joined a big management consulting firm, for example.

例，通过在一家小型管道公司工作学到的商业的知识可能比加入一家大型管理咨询公司学到的关于大型行业的知识要多得多，因为在那里只是一个小齿轮。

These words were written in the midst of a terrible spiritual tempest, of which the Confessions are the memory and echo. More than once was Tolstoy thrown to earth, his pinions shattered. But he always persevered. He started afresh.

这些话是在一场可怕的精神风暴中写成的，《忏悔录》是其中的记忆和回声。托尔斯泰不止一次被摔到地上，他的小齿轮被打碎。但他始终坚持。他重新始。

The song, the sweet music, rose afar, but rushing swiftly on fast-strengthening pinions—there swept through these shades so full a storm of harmonies that, had no tree been near against which to lean, I think I must have dropped.

这首歌，那甜美的音乐，从远处升起，但在快速增强的小齿轮上迅速地冲向——那里席卷这些树荫，充满和声的风暴，没有树靠近可以依靠，我想我一定已经掉下来。