While we waited the taxi's meter kept ticking away.

我们等候时，出租汽车的计程器一直在滴答滴答地走着。

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I had to get to the airport by two, and the minutes were ticking away.

我必须在两点前赶到机场，但是时间一分一秒地过去了。

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The moments of your precious life are ticking away.

你宝贵的生命正一分一秒地溜走。

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but she has not had the best of luck in the romance department and, with her biological clock ticking away, she has decided the "right guy" may never show up.

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But time is ticking away and you're afraid that you might miss your movie.

时间一分一秒地过去了，你开始担心要错过电影的开场。

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But there's a paradox buried inside Paul's rise in the Republican field, a time bomb ticking away.

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But they held their own in a tense second half littered with fouls until Telford's pressure told with the minutes ticking away.

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At least there is one form of international co-operation that Mr Kostunica does enthusiastically support: working with western governments to defuse the bomb ticking away in the Presevo valley.

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