ticking

基本解釋

Is the clock of doom ticking for mankind?
是人類末日的鐘聲在滴答作響嗎？
I looked through the door, everything looked the way it always did, I could hear the clock ticking.
我透過(guò)門(mén)看去，屋里的東西都井然有序地?cái)[放著，我能聽(tīng)到那鐘的滴答聲。
The news is full of food safety horror stories. Use by this date. Sell by that date. You can almost hear the ticking.
新聞里滿是食品安全的嚇人報(bào)道。在此時(shí)間食用，在彼時(shí)間銷(xiāo)售。你幾乎可以聽(tīng)到鐘表滴答滴答的指針。

And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.
We get used to the ticking of a clock or to noise of traffic but it's actually a very important form of learning because imagine life without it.
我們習(xí)慣了鐘的滴答聲和車(chē)來(lái)人往的噪音,但這卻是一種非常重要的學(xué)習(xí)形式,我們不妨試想一下無(wú)法進(jìn)行習(xí)慣化的情形。
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But time is ticking away and you're afraid that you might miss your movie.
時(shí)間一分一秒地過(guò)去了，你開(kāi)始擔(dān)心要錯(cuò)過(guò)電影的開(kāi)場(chǎng)。
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The closest analog I know of is when you suddenly become aware of a ticking clock.
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When a clock or watch ticks, it makes a regular series of short sounds as it works.
Tick away means the same as .
ticking
The tick of a clock or watch is the series of short sounds it makes when it is working, or one of those sounds.
A tick is a written mark like a V. It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with.
A tick is a small creature which lives on the bodies of people or animals and uses their blood as food.
If you tick something that is written on a piece of paper, you put a tick next to it.