tick over

常见例句

Corruption - Duration reduced and damage per tick increased. Total damage over duration approximately identical.
腐蚀，时间减少，单位时间伤害增加，总伤害基本不变。

It was maybe because of Berne - where clocks continue to tick over centuries - that the Theory of Relativity, a concept that time is not constant, could have been born.
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