A senior U.S.official acknowledges the clock is ticking on showing the effectiveness of America's multibillion dollar attempt to rebuild Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

We get used to the ticking of a clock or to noise of traffic but it's actually a very important form of learning because imagine life without it.

我们习惯了钟的滴答声和车来人往的噪音,但这却是一种非常重要的学习形式,我们不妨试想一下无法进行习惯化的情形。

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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 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.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

You can certainly beat this with a ticking of finger typing.

当然你用手指敲击一下就可以。

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It is a ticking time bomb for the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

These are things that--something's ticking over there.

有一些东西，有东西在嘀嗒走着。

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Imagine life where you never got used to anything, where suddenly somebody steps forward and waves their hand " and you'd go, "Woah," " and then they wave their hand again and you'd go, "Whoah," -- and you keep-- And there's the loud ticking of a clock and you say, " "Hmmm."

试想你在生活中无法习惯任何事情，要有人突然跳出来向你挥手,你肯定吓得惊叫，“哇“,然后他们再跟你挥手，你又惊叫“哇“,然后你就不停地-,或是在你听到响亮的钟摆声后很惊奇地说，“嗯“

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