Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock in the hall.

埃伦听见大厅的钟滴答滴答地大声走着。

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The ticking of the clock began to bring itself into notice.

时钟的滴答声开始引起注意。

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You can hear the ticking of the clock.

你可以听到滴答的时钟。

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

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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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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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While Congress dickers on this issue, all these people hear is the ticking of the clock.

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Only the ticking of the wall clock could be heard.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

"Because mutations start occurring at regular intervals in these genes as soon as a new species evolves - like the ticking of a clock - we can use them to trace the evolutionary history of a species back to its time of origin, " said Dr Hedges.

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