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count down

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中文: 倒读数、倒计时、倒数、盼望

  1. To announce the passage of time to a precisely timed expected event. (transitive) · The sound system counted down the seconds to meteor impact.
  2. To await a precisely timed expected event. (transitive) · The party was counting down the days to Inauguration.
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The council could pay only a modest fee, she added, but the clock had to be running by New Year's Eve, when the town gathered in the square to count down to midnight.
《Two Clocks》,第1页 · C1
That night the brothers stood side by side in the tower, listening to the town count down and then to the old bell striking twelve.
《Two Clocks》,第1页 · C1

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