When you consider possible careers, you should see what makes you tick to choose it.

当你在选择可能的职业时，你应该明白是什么激励你选择它。

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DONALD KNOWLES: "You need a tick to transmit from one infected cow to the other. They won't transmit just by standing next to each other. You need a tick to move it between them."

疾病从一个动物传染到另一个动物需要有壁虱，动物贴近站立是不会传染的，必须有壁虱来传递疾病。

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"My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months,"

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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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For the Markit Flash PMI, easing a tick to 53 for this month will not surprise too many.

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The truth of our over-informed lives is we have to tick to-dos off our list as we progress through the day.

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After firing up the app, pausing for a tick to line up your stroke will serve to "prime" the device, letting you start to hit putts.

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