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tick-tock noun[ U ] (alsotick tock)uk /ˈtɪkˌtɒk/ us /ˈtɪkˌtɑːk/ used to represent the sound that a clock makes: 滴答声 The only sound was the tick-tock of the clock.唯一的声音是时钟的滴答声。 We could hear every tick tock of the clock, but the hours seemed never to pass. He wound up his new alarm clock and listened for a while to its musical tick-tock. The movement of the pendulum and its tick-tock sound capture the fragmentation of time. The tick tock of clocks, the purring of cats, and the rhymes and songs on television accompanied them as they grew up. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Sounds made by objects, movement or impact bang around bleep boop choo-choo chuff clap along click away crunch honk plop resonance rumble spit squeak susurrus swoosh thrum thunk ticking tinkly tick-tock verb[ I ] uk /ˈtɪkˌtɒk/ us /ˈtɪkˌtɑːk/ (of a clock) to make a regular clicking sound: 发出滴答声 A silver clock beside the bed tick-tocks.床边的银色时钟滴答作响。 A clock on the wall tick-tocked through the night. He waits as the clock above his bed tick-tocks slowly to the hour. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Sounds made by objects, movement or impact bang around bleep boop choo-choo chuff clap along click away crunch honk plop resonance rumble spit squeak susurrus swoosh thrum thunk ticking tinkly |