tick away/by/past

phrasal verbphr v PASS/TIME PASSINGif time ticks away, by, or past, it passes, especially when you are waiting for something to happen 〔尤指等待某事发生时〕时光在流逝，时间一点一点地过去

We need a decision – time’s ticking away.

我们需要作出决定——时间正在一分一秒地过去。

The minutes ticked past and still she didn’t call.

时间一分一秒地过去，她仍未打电话来。

Examples from the Corpus

tick away/by/past• Soon the mornings would be cauldrons of mists, slowly rising and clearing as the mornings ticked by.• And he seemed to be concentrating on his driving as a minute or two ticked by in silence.• I thought of the seconds ticking by, minutes wasted before I had to go back to the dang.• At nearby Camberwick Green, life ticked by on the same orderly lines.• The slow hours seemed to tick by one tick at a time in the night.• He knew that time was ticking away remorselessly, though less than half a minute had passed.• The day ticked by slowly and finally I was out on the street, running toward the Trowbridge house.

→ tick away/by/past at tick1(3)

词汇	tick away/by/past
释义	tick away/by/past tick away/by/past phrasal verbphr v PASS/TIME PASSINGif time ticks away, by, or past, it passes, especially when you are waiting for something to happen 〔尤指等待某事发生时〕时光在流逝，时间一点一点地过去 We need a decision – time’s ticking away. 我们需要作出决定——时间正在一分一秒地过去。 The minutes ticked past and still she didn’t call. 时间一分一秒地过去，她仍未打电话来。 Examples from the Corpus tick away/by/past• Soon the mornings would be cauldrons of mists, slowly rising and clearing as the mornings ticked by.• And he seemed to be concentrating on his driving as a minute or two ticked by in silence.• I thought of the seconds ticking by, minutes wasted before I had to go back to the dang.• At nearby Camberwick Green, life ticked by on the same orderly lines.• The slow hours seemed to tick by one tick at a time in the night.• He knew that time was ticking away remorselessly, though less than half a minute had passed.• The day ticked by slowly and finally I was out on the street, running toward the Trowbridge house. → tick away/by/past at tick1(3)
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