As time ticks by, rising material costs can destroy a project's viability.

随着时间的流逝，不断上涨的材料成本可能会破坏项目的可行性。

The seconds ticked by; the game progressed with apathy now.

时间一分一秒地过去，现在比赛已经进行得很无趣了。

Ticked off by Facebook's first real attempt at making money.

因为Facebook是为了获取经济利益才出现了上面的情况。

I waited for him to say something that made sense. The seconds ticked by.

我等着他说出意思更明确些的话。时间一分一秒地过去。

None of this sense of the years ticking remorselessly by.

生活中不再充斥着时光飞逝的感觉。

I knew I had to think, but my head was filled with the sound of my mother's panic. Seconds ticked by while I fought for control.

我知道我得开始思考，但我的脑子里依然充斥着我妈妈恐惧的声音。时间一分一秒地过去，我挣扎着想要控制住自己。

I didn't sleep that night. I sat on the kitchen floor and watched the hours tick by. One A.M. Two. Three.

那天晚上我没有睡。我坐在厨房的地板上，盯着钟表，听着时间滴答滴答地流逝。凌晨一点。两点。三点。

And I think that once you kind of get into that mentality, you don't have to tick everything off by the end of the week.

而且我认为一旦你进入那种心态，你就不必在本周末之前完成所有事情。

I sat in the back of the car growing increasingly tense as the minutes ticked by, sending periodic messages to Sam that were variations on: She's not back yet.

随着时间的流逝，我坐在车后座上变得越来越紧张，我定期向山姆发送信息，内容是：她还没有回来。

But in our current national climate, where books are being banned, books about racial issues, I know that a lot of people get ticked off by a more panoramic view of our nation's history.

但在我们目前的国家氛围下，书籍、有关种族问题的书籍都被禁止，我知道很多人会对我们国家历史的更全面的了解感到恼火。