At twelve o'clock midnight people blow horns, yell, and kiss each other to welcome in the New Year.
到了午夜十二点,大家都吹吹喇叭、高声喊叫、相互接吻来庆祝新年。
but that was precisely the idea adopted in some of the early instruments (seismometers) for recording earthquake waves.
但是早期记录地震波的仪器(测震仪)正是采用了这种思路。