- 1滴答（時鐘走動的聲音）；也可當動詞用，或用來催人「時間快到了」
The sound a clock makes, second after second — 'tick' one way, 'tock' the other. English pairs the two because the sound seems to alternate, and this vowel pattern (i then o) is how English usually builds such pairs: , ding-dong, flip-flop. People write it to put an old clock into a scene, and parents say it to small children. It also works as a verb: 'the clock tick-tocked in the empty hall.' Beyond real clocks, saying 'tick-tock' to someone means 'time is running out, hurry up' — a little , sometimes teasing. Journalists have their own use: a 'tick-tock' is an article that lays out exactly what happened at each hour of some big event. Note that TikTok, the app, is a different thing, spelled differently, though the name plays on this word.
組成An imitation of the sound itself, built from 'tick' plus a changed-vowel echo, 'tock'.
同家族的字
- tickthe single click that 'tick-tock' doubles
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tick-tockintj
- 1
The sound of the ticking of an analog clock.
- 2
Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
- Near-synonym: clock is ticking
- You may be smart enough to elude the law for five years, but your time has run out. Tick tock, motherfucker.
- 3
Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
tick-tockverb
- 1
To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick.
- And so as the clock tick-tocked along at MetLife Stadium on Friday night, the possibility grew into the probability that this frustrating, scoreless quarterfinal between Colombia and Peru would end up in one of those unfortunate, nearly random shootout results.
- 2
When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
- Ex-military didn't pass up the chance to harshly criticise the mediocre stepping, noting their "tick-tocking" technique which is a term used in the army, describing moving arm and leg on the same side in the same direction while marching.
tick-tocknoun
- 1
The sound of a ticking clock.
- Stepping inside from the courtyard, there was silence except for the tick-tock of the antique grandfather clock in the great hall. The hulking cream-and-gray flagstones underfoot had been worn away from centuries of service.
- 2
journalismmediaA step-by-step account of an event or timeline.
- A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.
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