Tick tick, time to go leisurely, curl Tingting.

滴答滴答，时间走的不紧不慢，袅袅婷婷。

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It was the terrible tick-tick of the crocodile.

那是鳄鱼可怕的滴答声。

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He sat with his hands still pressed over his stomach, hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick lock tick.

他坐在那里，双手依然紧贴在肚子上，遮挡着他的怀表，但是整个牢房里都能听见怀表清脆的滴答声。

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Of what possible use were the hours it would tick away now?

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but you can sort of tell that the particle is moving slowly or rapidly by looking at the space in between these tick marks.

但你可以通过观察计时点之间的距离,来判断该物体运动的快慢

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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However, by Friday morning, having watched the Thursday rout, tick by tick, I was out.

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The good news is that the tick-by-tick, inverse linkage between the price of crude oil and the stock market was not completely in sync on Wednesday.

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One can only imagine what Agnew would make of our political world today, in which a president's pronouncements are dissected syllable by syllable, tick-of-the-clock by tick-of-the-clock.

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