ticking
美 [ˈtɪkɪŋ] 
英 ['tɪkɪŋ]
- n.（尤指做床垫和枕芯套的）结实条纹棉布
- v.“tick”的现在分词
- 网络滴答作响的；被套料；滴答声
英汉双解
1. | （尤指做床垫和枕芯套的）结实条纹棉布a type of strong cotton cloth that is often striped, used especially for making mattress and pillow covers |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
The "ticking " of the clock was the only sound that greeted him , for not a soul remained.
（单纯词）迎接他的只有“嘀嘀嗒嗒”的钟声，因为再也没有一个人留下了（重叠式词组）。
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，我只是个高二的学生。但我感觉时间在一分一秒流逝，我不想整个高中碌碌无为。
A manager of a shop was ticking off one of his staffs . "l saw you were arguing with a customer . "
一个商店的经理正在给他的一个员工训话，“我刚才看见你正在和一个顾客争吵。”
Ms McCrumb does not mind waitressing for a bit as she decides what to do with her life, but the clock is ticking.
麦克拉姆并不介意当一段时间的服务员，这期间她可以决定自己想要什么样的生活，但是时间十分紧迫。
But he did not dare open his mouth, just sat there stiffly, listening to the unhurried ticking of the wall clock.
可是他没有敢开口。他一直那么规矩地坐着不动，听着挂钟沉缓的响声。
It would be like trying to make the hands of clock move backwards to its ticking.
这无异是想使时钟的指针向后倒转。
But once I'd composed myself I flirted with him a bit and got away with a ticking-off.
我一镇静下来就开始和他调情，他没有办法，责备了我几句就让我走了。
With the clock ticking and my oversized Russian fisherman looking ready to explode, he grabbed my hand.
时间一秒一秒的过去，大个子的俄罗斯渔民似乎要爆发了，他抓住了我的手。
And yet it is not as though everyone is walking around like a ticking hand grenade.
不过不是如同每个人都手上拽了一个即将引爆的手雷。
Mr. Kerry said that he thought Mr. Assad would not survive as Syria's leader much longer. "The time is ticking, " he said.
克里称，当时他认为阿萨德已经在叙利亚总统的位子上坐不了多久了。他说，“时间不等人。”
If it did, the clock would not be ticking down to a congressionally mandated default even as the economy stalls.
如果有，美国不就会在经济陷入停滞之际一步一步走向国会授权的违约。
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.
倒计时是电影院不可或缺的一部分，即使时钟要花费同指针滴答滴答趋向零相同的时间就会停止。
To be sure, most economic data around the world are still improving. Ironically, numbers are even ticking up in Portugal and Spain.
的确，全球多数经济数据仍在不断好转，就连葡萄牙和西班牙的数据也是步步高。
HAVING grown up to the ticking of a countdown clock, many Hong Kongers have been worrying most of their lives.
随着回归倒计时长大的香港人，生活一直都是他们最为担心的事情。
"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边看到过一罐清洁剂，”我一边说一边跑过去找到了这罐清洁剂。珍贵的时间一分一分地溜走。
We've got to stop 'em, they're gonna kill us all! -They're using our own satellites against us. The clock is ticking.
我们必须阻止他们，否则他们会杀光我们的！-他们现在正在使用我们的卫星来对付我们。时间非常紧迫呀。
How it leisurely past, how bland unknown, perhaps, only occasionally to hear a few fuzzy fault acoustic ticking.
它如何悠闲地过往，又该如何平淡未知，或许，模糊得只偶尔错听几声滴答滴答。
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.
圣诞的钟声即将敲响，我猜，此刻一定有些读者像我一样仍需要逛街买礼物。
The BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders said the clock was now ticking.
BBC经济学编辑斯蒂芬妮·弗兰德斯说，现在已经开始计时了。
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.
我试图跟随那轻柔的滴答声，在一次钟鸣声和下次的钟鸣声之间数出九百秒，但我总是数不清。
There is a potential time bomb ticking away on the shelves of the stellar evolutionists.
在星球演化论者的理论仓库中埋藏着一枚正在滴答作响的定时炸弹。
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。
The clock is ticking.
台钟在滴答滴答地响。
Around Tokyo, many young people speculate that the reason might be as simple as the ticking of the biological clock.
在整个东京，许多年轻人都揣没，她这么做的理由可能很简单，那就是生物时钟正声声催人。
The daily chores that keep an organization ticking often go unrecognized. But the subject in our next story seems to specialize in them.
让组织得以运转的每天例行工作，往往不为人知，但是下则新闻的主角却非常专精于此。
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.
共和党的聚光灯则在渲染定时炸弹的嘀哒声，还援引了一句本•拉登的话：杀掉美国人是每个穆斯林的神圣职责。
I couldn't hear my biological clock ticking, but my libido was banging on the door to get out.
我听不到自已生物钟滴答响，但我的性欲令我迫不急待地敲开门到外面与人约会去。
A famous thought experiment asks what you would do with a terrorist who knew the location of a ticking nuclear bomb.
有个著名的思想试验，问你会怎样对待一个知道嘀嗒作响的原子弹方位的恐怖分子。
We had come into it only for a short time, but for just long enough to still the ticking of the clock.
我们在那里仅停留片刻，但这一刻已经足够让时间暂驻。
So the clock was ticking, the meter was running, and I had a choice to make; pursue my own needs, or save his life.
时间在一点一滴的流逝，就像百米赛跑，而我需要作出选择：是继续追寻我的梦想，还是挽救他的生命。
got to be some kind of clock that's ticking inside of us.
我们体内应该存在着像钟一样的东西
With a clock ticking down towards a crucial vote, President Obama has made a further strong bid for support for his health care reforms.
随着关键性投票的时刻逼近，奥巴马总统尽更大努力获取人们对医疗改革法案的支持。
Find yourself something that matches the rest of your decor and avoid a loud ticking clock at all costs!
给自己找一个和其他装饰品相配的挂钟，但是无论如何也不要找一个滴答声响亮的。
With the horror of a westerner used to ambulance sirens, I counted the seconds ticking away while nothing was done.
作为一个西方人，我一听到救护车的汽笛声就会恐惧，我听着秒针滴滴答答的走过，但是情形却没有一丝进展。
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.
我们使他的脑子开始动起来，不过，他能希望去得到远远比这更多，如果他好好考虑自己有一切必要资源的话。
Interviews begin in less than a month, and the clock is already ticking down toward the next Demo Day.
面试会在一个月内开始，而下一次演示日已经进入倒计时了。
At least that has increased total wage compensation , helping to keep private consumption ticking over .
至少这种情况增加了工资总额，这有助于保持私人消费缓慢增长。
The report does little-to-nothing to help you ascertain that the second half of the or short-circuit is a ticking time bomb!
这个报告并不能帮助您确定or缩短操作的后半部分是一个定时炸弹！
Ms Munro is keen to stress the research process is not a box-ticking exercise and that the regional teams make manager selection decisions.
蒙罗很愿意强调，调查程序不是打勾练习，同时遴选经理的决策由地区团队负责。
Presently there arose from within a ticking like the love-making of the grasshopper.
不久，麦地里传来一种“嚓嚓”声，好像是蚂蚱情说爱的声音。
" Ticking . . . . . . Ticking . . . . . . " Banana, swaying posture, recounting -- tonight and rain melancholy.
“滴嗒……滴嗒……”，芭蕉摇曳的身姿，诉说着——今夜与雨惆怅。
The demographic clock that was ticking before the Great Recession didn't stop when the economy went into a tailspin.
大萧条之前就频频催逼的人口统计的时钟在经济走下坡路的时候并没有停摆。
"Our policy is not containment, " he said. "It is prevention, and the clock is ticking. "
“我们的政策不是要遏制，”他说。“而是要预防，时间不等人。”
