He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.

他坐着倾听那个落地式大钟的嘀嗒声。

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He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk.

他把扁虱放出来，把它放到了又长又平的桌子上。

youdao

The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.

那只扁虱很快就逃过了汤姆的手，越过了界限。

youdao

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

VOA: special.2010.05.15

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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But there is one form that would cut crime with the tick of a box.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | David Davis speech in full

And what kind of -- just on the tick-tock issue, what kind of information -- is he being updated by Justice?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The tick box in Scotland was added at the request of the Scottish parliament, which has authority over the census in Scotland.

BBC: Assembly's census row demand