ticking
美 [?t?k??] 
英 ['t?k??]
- n.（尤指做床墊和枕芯套的）結實條紋棉布
- v.“tick”的現在分詞
- 網絡滴答作響的；被套料；滴答聲
英漢雙解
1. | （尤指做床墊和枕芯套的）結實條紋棉布a type of strong cotton cloth that is often striped, used especially for making mattress and pillow covers |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
The "ticking " of the clock was the only sound that greeted him , for not a soul remained.
（單純詞）迎接他的只有“嘀嘀嗒嗒”的鐘聲，因為再也沒有一個人留下了（重疊式詞組）。
Look, I know I'm just a sophomore, but I can feel the clock ticking away, and I don't want to leave high school with nothing to show for it.
我知道，我只是個高二的學生。但我感覺時間在一分一秒流逝，我不想整個高中碌碌無為。
A manager of a shop was ticking off one of his staffs . "l saw you were arguing with a customer . "
一個商店的經理正在給他的一個員工訓話，“我剛才看見你正在和一個顧客爭吵。”
Ms McCrumb does not mind waitressing for a bit as she decides what to do with her life, but the clock is ticking.
麥克拉姆并不介意當一段時間的服務員，這期間她可以決定自己想要什么樣的生活，但是時間十分緊迫。
But he did not dare open his mouth, just sat there stiffly, listening to the unhurried ticking of the wall clock.
可是他沒有敢開口。他一直那么規矩地坐著不動，聽著掛鐘沉緩的響聲。
It would be like trying to make the hands of clock move backwards to its ticking.
這無異是想使時鐘的指針向后倒轉。
But once I'd composed myself I flirted with him a bit and got away with a ticking-off.
我一鎮靜下來就開始和他調情，他沒有辦法，責備了我幾句就讓我走了。
With the clock ticking and my oversized Russian fisherman looking ready to explode, he grabbed my hand.
時間一秒一秒的過去，大個子的俄羅斯漁民似乎要爆發了，他抓住了我的手。
And yet it is not as though everyone is walking around like a ticking hand grenade.
不過不是如同每個人都手上拽了一個即將引爆的手雷。
Mr. Kerry said that he thought Mr. Assad would not survive as Syria's leader much longer. "The time is ticking, " he said.
克里稱，當時他認為阿薩德已經在敘利亞總統的位子上坐不了多久了。他說，“時間不等人。”
If it did, the clock would not be ticking down to a congressionally mandated default even as the economy stalls.
如果有，美國不就會在經濟陷入停滯之際一步一步走向國會授權的違約。
Countdowns are an integral part of the theatre, even though the clock seems to spend as much time stopped as it does ticking towards zero.
倒計時是電影院不可或缺的一部分，即使時鐘要花費同指針滴答滴答趨向零相同的時間就會停止。
To be sure, most economic data around the world are still improving. Ironically, numbers are even ticking up in Portugal and Spain.
的確，全球多數經濟數據仍在不斷好轉，就連葡萄牙和西班牙的數據也是步步高。
HAVING grown up to the ticking of a countdown clock, many Hong Kongers have been worrying most of their lives.
隨著回歸倒計時長大的香港人，生活一直都是他們最為擔心的事情。
"I think I saw a can of cleanser by the sink in the coat room, " I said as I raced to find it. Precious minutes were ticking away.
“我想我在更衣室的水槽邊看到過一罐清潔劑，”我一邊說一邊跑過去找到了這罐清潔劑。珍貴的時間一分一分地溜走。
We've got to stop 'em, they're gonna kill us all! -They're using our own satellites against us. The clock is ticking.
我們必須阻止他們，否則他們會殺光我們的！-他們現在正在使用我們的衛星來對付我們。時間非常緊迫呀。
How it leisurely past, how bland unknown, perhaps, only occasionally to hear a few fuzzy fault acoustic ticking.
它如何悠閑地過往，又該如何平淡未知，或許，模糊得只偶爾錯聽幾聲滴答滴答。
The clock is ticking down on Christmas, and I'm guessing there are a few readers out there like me who still have some shopping to do.
圣誕的鐘聲即將敲響，我猜，此刻一定有些讀者像我一樣仍需要逛街買禮物。
The BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders said the clock was now ticking.
BBC經濟學編輯斯蒂芬妮·弗蘭德斯說，現在已經開始計時了。
I tried to follow its soft ticking and to count the nine hundred seconds between one stroke and the next, but I kept losing track.
我試圖跟隨那輕柔的滴答聲，在一次鐘鳴聲和下次的鐘鳴聲之間數出九百秒，但我總是數不清。
There is a potential time bomb ticking away on the shelves of the stellar evolutionists.
在星球演化論者的理論倉庫中埋藏著一枚正在滴答作響的定時炸彈。
Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock in the hall.
埃倫聽見大廳的鐘滴答滴答地大聲走著。
The clock is ticking.
臺鐘在滴答滴答地響。
Around Tokyo, many young people speculate that the reason might be as simple as the ticking of the biological clock.
在整個東京，許多年輕人都揣沒，她這么做的理由可能很簡單，那就是生物時鐘正聲聲催人。
The daily chores that keep an organization ticking often go unrecognized. But the subject in our next story seems to specialize in them.
讓組織得以運轉的每天例行工作，往往不為人知，但是下則新聞的主角卻非常專精于此。
Republican spots feature the sound of a ticking bomb and a quote from Osama bin Laden about every Muslim's sacred duty to kill Americans.
共和黨的聚光燈則在渲染定時炸彈的嘀噠聲，還援引了一句本?拉登的話：殺掉美國人是每個穆斯林的神圣職責。
I couldn't hear my biological clock ticking, but my libido was banging on the door to get out.
我聽不到自已生物鐘滴答響，但我的性欲令我迫不急待地敲開門到外面與人約會去。
A famous thought experiment asks what you would do with a terrorist who knew the location of a ticking nuclear bomb.
有個著名的思想試驗，問你會怎樣對待一個知道嘀嗒作響的原子彈方位的恐怖分子。
We had come into it only for a short time, but for just long enough to still the ticking of the clock.
我們在那里僅停留片刻，但這一刻已經足夠讓時間暫駐。
So the clock was ticking, the meter was running, and I had a choice to make; pursue my own needs, or save his life.
時間在一點一滴的流逝，就像百米賽跑，而我需要作出選擇：是繼續追尋我的夢想，還是挽救他的生命。
got to be some kind of clock that's ticking inside of us.
我們體內應該存在著像鐘一樣的東西
With a clock ticking down towards a crucial vote, President Obama has made a further strong bid for support for his health care reforms.
隨著關鍵性投票的時刻逼近，奧巴馬總統盡更大努力獲取人們對醫療改革法案的支持。
Find yourself something that matches the rest of your decor and avoid a loud ticking clock at all costs!
給自己找一個和其他裝飾品相配的掛鐘，但是無論如何也不要找一個滴答聲響亮的。
With the horror of a westerner used to ambulance sirens, I counted the seconds ticking away while nothing was done.
作為一個西方人，我一聽到救護車的汽笛聲就會恐懼，我聽著秒針滴滴答答的走過，但是情形卻沒有一絲進展。
We got his brain ticking , yet he could want more, much more, if he really thought about it, if he had all the necessary resources.
我們使他的腦子開始動起來，不過，他能希望去得到遠遠比這更多，如果他好好考慮自己有一切必要資源的話。
Interviews begin in less than a month, and the clock is already ticking down toward the next Demo Day.
面試會在一個月內開始，而下一次演示日已經進入倒計時了。
At least that has increased total wage compensation , helping to keep private consumption ticking over .
至少這種情況增加了工資總額，這有助于保持私人消費緩慢增長。
The report does little-to-nothing to help you ascertain that the second half of the or short-circuit is a ticking time bomb!
這個報告并不能幫助您確定or縮短操作的后半部分是一個定時炸彈！
Ms Munro is keen to stress the research process is not a box-ticking exercise and that the regional teams make manager selection decisions.
蒙羅很愿意強調，調查程序不是打勾練習，同時遴選經理的決策由地區團隊負責。
Presently there arose from within a ticking like the love-making of the grasshopper.
不久，麥地里傳來一種“嚓嚓”聲，好像是螞蚱情說愛的聲音。
" Ticking . . . . . . Ticking . . . . . . " Banana, swaying posture, recounting -- tonight and rain melancholy.
“滴嗒……滴嗒……”，芭蕉搖曳的身姿，訴說著——今夜與雨惆悵。
The demographic clock that was ticking before the Great Recession didn't stop when the economy went into a tailspin.
大蕭條之前就頻頻催逼的人口統計的時鐘在經濟走下坡路的時候并沒有停擺。
"Our policy is not containment, " he said. "It is prevention, and the clock is ticking. "
“我們的政策不是要遏制，”他說。“而是要預防，時間不等人。”
