tick
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they tick | |
| he / she / it ticks | |
| past simple ticked | |
| past participle ticked | |
| -ing form ticking |
- [intransitive]
(of a clock, etc. 鐘表等 to make short, light, regular repeated sounds to mark time passing 發出滴答聲；滴答地走時 In the silence we could hear the clock ticking. 寂靜中，我們能聽到鐘表滴答作響。 a ticking bomb 滴答作響的定時炸彈 - tick away
While we waited the taxi's meter kept ticking away. 我們等候時，出租汽車的計程器一直在滴答滴答地走着。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- relentlessly
- away
- …
- [transitive] (British English) (North American English check)tick something
to put a mark (✓) next to an item on a list, an answer, etc. 標記號；打上鈎；打對號 Please tick the appropriate box. 請在適合的方框内打鈎。 Tick ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to each question. 在每個問題的 “是” 或 “否” 旁打鈎。 I've ticked the names of the people who have paid. 我在已付款者的姓名旁畫了鈎。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- simply
- mentally
- off
- …
Word Originverb Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘pat, touch’): probably of Germanic origin and related to Dutch tik (noun), tikken (verb) ‘pat, touch’. The noun was recorded in late Middle English as ‘a light tap’; current senses date from the late 17th cent.
Idioms
the clock is ticking (down)
used to say that there's not much time left before something happens 滴答： 過去常說沒有什麽時間The clock is ticking down to midnight on New Year’s Eve. 新年前夕，時鐘滴答滴答地指向午夜。 The clock is ticking for one mystery lottery winner who has less than 24 hours to claim a £64 million prize. 對於一名神秘彩票中獎者來說，時間不到24小時就能獲得6400萬英鎊的獎金。
tick all the/somebody’s boxes
what makes somebody tick
