make tick
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动词[编辑]
make tick (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 makes tick，現在分詞 making tick，一般過去時及過去分詞 made tick)
- (口語) 让...变成现在这样
- 2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, →ISBN，頁號 91:
- I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.
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- 2012, Kevin Seamus Hasson, The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America, →ISBN:
- Most of us find ourselves caught in the middle, ducking for cover and wondering just who these people are and what could possibly make them tick.
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- 2013, Betty Lussier, Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945, →ISBN:
- I wanted to roam the world, exploring what made it tick, helping to make it tick better, and never get married.
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- 仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见make、tick。