Sirius held up his fingers and began ticking off names.

小天狼星举起手，开始扳着手指一个个地报着人名。

I'm suppose to be ticking them off for being the least efficient.

可我还要因他们是最低效的而批评他们呢。

I had no idea why this stranger was hitting me, and it was ticking me off.

我不知道这个陌生人为什么要袭击我，这太让我生气了。

And slowly I stopped ticking off experiences, because pretty much everything was new and strange.

慢慢地，我不再记录经历，因为几乎所有的事情都是新奇的。

I wondered if I should be offering Agnes coffee, or officiously ticking things off lists.

我想知道我是否应该提供艾格尼丝咖啡，或者礼貌地在清单上打勾。

So late-night work email may not be the only thing ticking you off—the blue glow of your machine may also be getting you down.

所以深夜工作的电子邮件可能不是唯一斥责你业绩不佳的托词，你的机器闪烁的蓝色光芒也会让你感到失望。

Instead of doing home chores, you will focus on ticking off work tasks from your list and will feel a sense of achievement once you've done so.

比起做家务，你会更专注于完成清单上的工作任务，并在完成以后有一种成就感。

But instead of receiving sympathy and support from other community users and the game’s development team, he received a stern ticking off from the forum’s community manager.

然而，他的抱怨并未引起社区成员和游戏开发小组的同情和支持，相反，他得到的是论坛社区经理的严厉谴责。

He began ticking off honours in all of his classes, and became one of the prodigies of the College of the City of New York.

他开始在所有班级中获得荣誉， 并成为纽约市立学院的神童之一。

He couldn't tell you when he started noticing, though, just like he doesn't know when he started ticking off the days of Henry's moods.

他无法告诉你他什么时候开始注意到这一点，就像他不知道他什么时候开始记起亨利的情绪一样。

The role of administrator involves a lot of structure as there are a number of tasks to work on every day. For most, the act of ticking off each task as it is completed is extremely satisfying.

行政人员的工作需要整理有序，因为每天需要面对大量的任务。对很多人来说，从任务单上划去一个已完成任务的行动非常具有满足感。

Our narrator (whose name is Dr. Reeves, we find out later) says that this man is hitting him, and it's " ticking off." " To tick someone off" means to make them very, very angry – it's an informal expression.

我们的解说员（他的名字是里夫斯博士，我们后来才知道）说这个人在打他， 而且是在“打勾” 。 “打勾某人”的意思是让他们非常、非常生气——这是一种非正式的表达方式。