make tick

英语

动词

make tick (第三人称单数简单现在时 makes tick，现在分词 making tick，一般过去时及过去分词 made tick)

1. (口语) 让...变成现在这样
   • 2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, →ISBN，页号 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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2. 仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见make、tick。