To keep time by counting beats.

发齿槽音时用节拍发出。

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I'd spent so much time perfecting the rhymes, and counting the beats, that I knew the poem by heart.

我甚至不必费神看我的诗稿，因为这首诗我花了很多时间完善韵律、对齐音步，所以我对这首诗了熟于胸。

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When you listened to Desmond's "Take Five" or Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk, " you walked away humming the tunes, not counting the beats.

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