tick over

基本解释

• 慢吞吞地工作；进行缓慢

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英汉例句

双语例句

• Corruption - Duration reduced and damage per tick increased. Total damage over duration approximately identical.
  腐蚀，时间减少，单位时间伤害增加，总伤害基本不变。

权威例句

• It was maybe because of Berne - where clocks continue to tick over centuries - that the Theory of Relativity, a concept that time is not constant, could have been born.
  UNESCO: Culture
• The truth of our over-informed lives is we have to tick to-dos off our list as we progress through the day.
  FORBES: IBM's CEO Is Plain Wrong About Technology and Change. Here's Why
• They might have set-up costs, both in time and money, but once they are rolling they can just tick over in the background.
  FORBES: The Business of Writing: Turn Your Income Stream Into A River

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英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• (of an engine) to run at low speed with the throttle control closed and the transmission disengaged (See also idle)
• the speed of an engine when it is ticking over
• (as modifier)

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