These little ticks of achievement are no curse, but rather the gift of fun.

这些让人获得成就感的小把戏并不是可怕的诅咒，而是让人获得乐趣的小礼物。

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A rise in the number of ticks this year has infectious disease experts focused on the best way to treat the Lyme disease that the little buggers can spread.

今年，随着硬蜱数量大量上升，传染病专家开始关注控制由这种小虫传染的莱姆病的最佳应对方法。

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A modern PC typically has a processor running at 3.0ghz (3 billion clock ticks per second), little changed from a PC made three or four years ago.

现在一个电脑的处理器的频率通常是3.0 GHz(每秒30亿次时针摆动)，这与三年或四前年制造的电脑没有太大的变化。

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Each time he does something like this, the stock ticks up a little bit.

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That these people would just learn a little economics, understand how and why the world ticks as it does, before insisting that they know how to change it all.

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