- clock is ticking.
- There are three million birds on this island, but only one matters to him.
1. 换种表达
使形式更为多样，而不至于乏味，无聊。
- 富有，大量，
- be rich with：the surrounding sea, however, is particularly rich with life.
- time is running out. 剩的时间不多了；
- the clock is ticking.
- 排名第一，
- second to none.
- 排名第二：
- She can dive at 200 miles an hour, only a peregrine（游隼）is faster.
2. 一些表达
- the way I see it，看待问题的方式
- People think having a disability is a barrier, but that’s not the way I see it.
3. quote
- we must know, we will know.（David Hilbert）
- music is the science between notes. （法国作曲家德彪西）
- 音乐是音符间的静默；
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.—— 马克吐温；