倒计时钟制造商、瑞士欧米茄公司的发言人发表声明称：“倒计时钟停摆，我们感到很失望。”

"We are obviously very disappointed that the clock has suffered this technical issue," a spokesman for Swiss watchmakers Omega said in a statement。

被有限期派驻海外工作后，人们常常会产生一种奇怪的感觉，总觉得有个倒计时钟在那里嘀嗒作响。

One of the strange things about being on assignment for a defined time is the constant sense of a clock ticking away in the background.

当开幕式开始前倒计时，上百个青年敲击由电脑控制的银色和红色的“缶”，由人构成巨大的倒计时钟的每个像素。

As the seconds ticked down ahead of the start, hundreds of young men clad in silver and red banged on computerized drums, forming human pixels in a giant countdown clock.