{"id":19132,"date":"2026-09-04T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/in-a-tick-means-in-a-very-short-time\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:10:42","slug":"in-a-tick-means-in-a-very-short-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/in-a-tick-means-in-a-very-short-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I&#8217;ll Be with You in a Tick\u2019 Means \u2018I&#8217;ll Be with You Very Soon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/public-assets.geoffreychen.com\/wordpress\/articles\/in-a-tick-means-in-a-very-short-time\/654f08477b9db01b1b535167.jpg?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u201cI\u2019ll be with you in a tick.\u201d\u5c31\u662f\u201c\u6211\u9a6c\u4e0a\u6765\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be with you in a tick.\u201d\u5e38\u89c1\u4e8e\u5e97\u5458\u6b63\u5728\u5fd9\u3001\u540c\u4e8b\u8981\u5148\u505a\u5b8c\u624b\u5934\u4e00\u4ef6\u4e8b\u65f6\uff0c\u610f\u601d\u662f\u201c\u6211\u9a6c\u4e0a\u6765\u5904\u7406\u201d\uff0c\u4e0d\u662f\u7cbe\u786e\u7b49\u4e00\u4e2a\u949f\u8868\u6ef4\u7b54\u3002tick\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u6307\u5f88\u77ed\u7684\u4e00\u4f1a\u513f\uff0c\u8bed\u6c14\u968f\u610f\u800c\u53cb\u597d\uff0c\u4e5f\u6697\u542b\u8bf7\u5bf9\u65b9\u7a0d\u7b49\u3002\u53ef\u4ee5\u8bf4\uff1a\u201cCan you check this?\u201d \u201cIn a tick\u2014I\u2019m just finishing this email.\u201d \u6fb3\u6d32\u548c\u82f1\u56fd\u53e3\u8bed\u91cc\u5f88\u81ea\u7136\uff1b\u7f8e\u56fd\u4eba\u66f4\u5e38\u8bf4in a sec\u6216in a minute\u3002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/tick\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/tick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17897162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_geoff_meta_description_en":"In a tick is an informal promise of a very short wait, not a precise measure of time; in American English, in a sec is often more familiar.","_geoff_meta_description_zh":"\u53e3\u8bed\u4e2d\u7684in a tick\u8868\u793a\u5f88\u77ed\u7684\u4e00\u4f1a\u513f\uff0c\u5e38\u7528\u6765\u8bf7\u5bf9\u65b9\u7a0d\u7b49\u5e76\u627f\u8bfa\u9a6c\u4e0a\u5904\u7406\uff1b\u5b83\u4e0d\u662f\u7cbe\u786e\u65f6\u95f4\uff0c\u4e5f\u4e0d\u7b49\u4e8e\u5b57\u9762\u4e0a\u7684\u4e00\u6b21\u949f\u8868\u6ef4\u7b54\u3002","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[787297225],"tags":[787296966,787299287,787299286,787296967],"class_list":["post-19132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-english-sentence","tag-australian-english","tag-in-a-tick-zh","tag-in-a-tick","tag-australian-english-zh",""],"translatepress_titles":{"en_AU":"\u2018I'll Be with You in a Tick\u2019 Means \u2018I'll Be with You Very Soon\u2019","zh_CN":"\u201cI\u2019ll be with you in a tick.\u201d\u5c31\u662f\u201c\u6211\u9a6c\u4e0a\u6765\u201d"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ar9H-4YA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17897162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffreychen.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}