tick over
基本解释
- 慢吞吞地工作;进行缓慢
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
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)