rat-a-tat

1 Sorkin's high-IQ, rat-a-tat cocktail of noble sentiment, scalpel-sharp satire, and sports-as-a-metaphor-for-life drama was fueled by an innate love of language and a palpable fondness for the people who craft it for a living.

2 What surprised climate scientists wasn’t the number of storms, but their strength and rat-a-tat frequency.

3 Just the rat-a-tat of three Caterpillar excavators gnawing through concrete signaled the beginning of the largest dam removal project in the history of the country, and perhaps the world.

4 But California’s governor was utterly slavish in the role of dutiful party soldier, repeatedly extolling Biden’s performance with a rat-a-tat of statistics — a Newsom hallmark — on falling inflation, rising employment and other favorable barometers.

5 Along the way, the group is serenaded by a grieving waitress (Tracie Bennett, her voice beautifully weary) and joined by a rat-a-tat colonel (François Battiste) and a lieutenant (the exhilarating Jin Ha), who instantly falls for Fritz.

6 The Coyote has always had a divisive sound: low-end burble, barky midrange, and raspy, rat-a-tat hammer up top.

7 Steele, for one, sees promise in a form of TMS known as intermittent theta-burst stimulation, which involves delivering a rat-a-tat stream of high-frequency magnetic pulses over just a few minutes.

8 But starting with Covid-19, the rat-a-tat series of crises exposed with startling clarity vulnerabilities that demanded attention.

9 I heard footsteps, then a knock on the door.

我听到脚步声，随后是敲门的声音。

10 Suddenly there came a rat - a - tat on the door.

突然传来了一阵梆梆的敲门声.

11 At the rat - a - tat of the knocker her heart fly into her mouth.

听到敲击者咚咚声她的心都悬起来了.

12 And she knocked the door with a rat - a - tat - tat.

她用力敲门:咚咚咚.

13 A couple is in bed sleeping when there's a rat a - tat - tat on the door.

正当一对夫妻在床上睡觉时,门边传来了老鼠声.

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