But once I'd composed myself I flirted with him a bit and got away with a ticking-off.

我一镇静下来就开始和他调情，他没有办法，责备了我几句就让我走了。

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Rather, the researchers have determined that the neuron signals were marking intervals of time, ticking off time-stamps down to tens of milliseconds.

更确切地说，研究人员们已经确定这些神经元信号正记下时间间隔，并以几十毫秒的速度标记时间。

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There are no prizes for ticking off every item on your to do list everyday.

每天都完成你清单上所列的事情并不会得到奖品。

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In nine cases out of ten, the police complain, the result is that juvenile delinquents get released by the courts after a mere ticking-off.

ECONOMIST: France

His government has had a very public ticking-off from Brussels with a recommendation by the European Commission that Germany should be given a warning about its budget deficit.

BBC: Jobless put Schroeder on the line

Now, you have the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility giving him what can only be described as a ticking-off, for suggesting that the OBR didn't think spending cuts and tax rises had had any effect on the pace of the recovery - "quite the opposite".

BBC: A ticking-off for the PM