ticking

基本解释

Is the clock of doom ticking for mankind?
是人類末日的鍾聲在滴答作響嗎？
I looked through the door, everything looked the way it always did, I could hear the clock ticking.
我透過門看去，屋裡的東西都井然有序地擺放著，我能聽到那鍾的滴答聲。
The news is full of food safety horror stories. Use by this date. Sell by that date. You can almost hear the ticking.
新聞裡滿是食品安全的嚇人報道。在此時間食用，在彼時間銷售。你幾乎可以聽到鍾表滴答滴答的指針。

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.
我們習慣了鍾的滴答聲和車來人往的噪音,但這卻是一種非常重要的學習形式,我們不妨試想一下無法進行習慣化的情形。
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But time is ticking away and you're afraid that you might miss your movie.
時間一分一秒地過去了，你開始擔心要錯過電影的開場。
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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.