He had ticked so long that he now went on ticking without knowing that he was doing it.

他已经滴答了很久，以致于他现在还在发出滴答声却毫不自知。

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Jack went to school without breakfast, so he is hungry now.

杰克没吃早饭就去上学了，所以他现在很饿。

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Without whale oil, so the thinking went, the world would slide backward toward darkness.

按照这样的思维下去，如果没有鲸鱼油，世界将会倒退回黑暗时代。

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Ms. Greer says her doctor wouldn't write prescriptions without an office visit, so she went without the drugs.

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Several would-be voters in Baghdad's mainly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah could not find their names on voting rolls at several polling centers, so they went home without casting ballots.

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So this community went 10 years without a place for folks to buy good food.

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