Tick

(noun.) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals.

(noun.) a light mattress.

(noun.) a metallic tapping sound; 'he counted the ticks of the clock'.

(verb.) sew; 'tick a mattress'.

(verb.) make a sound like a clock or a timer; 'the clocks were ticking'; 'the grandfather clock beat midnight'.

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• Not a word was spoken when we first went in; and the Dutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick twice as loud as usual. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Grandfer Cantle, you turn the tick the right way outwards, and then I'll begin to shake in the feathers. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Clocks tick so loud, too, when you are sitting up alone, and you seem as if you had an under-garment of cobwebs on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Something drummed and clanged furiously in his ears; he could not tell if it were the blood in his veins, or the tick of the clock on the mantel. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She could hear their tick-tack, tick-tack. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Oh, how she suffered, lying there alone, confronted by the terrible clock, with its eternal tick-tack. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There was an old clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise everything was deadly still. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They stood there so still, gazing upon her, that even the ticking of the watch seemed too loud. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The silence that followed was so intense that the faint ticking nibble of the white mice at their wires was distinctly audible where I stood. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At length, the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock on the wall tormented me to that degree that I resolved to go to bed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There was no reply; so Mr. Pickwick sat down unbidden, and listened to the loud ticking of the clock and the murmured conversation of the clerks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• My self-approval when I ticked an entry was quite a luxurious sensation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill, and ticked it off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• His watch ticked on. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Tom Edison, the operator ticked back. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The parlour-fire ticked in the grate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The minutes ticked on, and the constable did not arrive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was only one person on the parlour-hearth, and the loud watch in his pocket ticked audibly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• With its sharp clear bell it strikes three quarters after seven and ticks on again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The clock ticks over the fireplace, the weather-glass hangs in the hall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Ticks of a Watch and the Tread of a Fly Recorded. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When I had no more ticks to make, I folded all my bills up uniformly, docketed each on the back, and tied the whole into a symmetrical bundle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• You may have observed that some of them were marked with ticks, and the others--the great majority--were not. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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