"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -- Only this and nothing more."

VOA: special.2010.10.31

So you're tapping your foot. You're tapping the beat and a lot of the music is coming off the beat.

你用脚打拍子,你在跟着节奏打拍子,很多乐音都不在正拍上

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Well, the receptionist sees you, tapping your finger and starting to give her looks.

这时，前台的姑娘看到你不耐烦地敲打着手指，不停地抬头看她。

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He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

Most people--And everybody was tapping the beat just fine and dandy, but notice up here nobody is playing the beat.

大部分人,每个人都打得很好,但你们有没有注意到没有人打在拍上

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Tapping into the his vast collection of jazz melodies and pop standards on "Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

So everybody start tapping where you think it is.

大家打起来,在你觉得正确的点上

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Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg says Republicans have had some success during the health care debate in tapping into public concerns about too much government involvement in health care.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Most of you are not tapping.

你们大部分人都没有打拍子啊

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Market experts say next year India is likely to try to import three million tons of rice tapping the world market for the first time in 21 years because of a drought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

So there is a fear and I think that is what this change is tapping into, a grumpy,worried national audience that is very,very concerned that somehow when their lives are somewhat fragile, things are going to even erode or crack further,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.17