Her heart went pit-a-pat.

她心里扑扑直跳。

I could hear the pit-a-pat of feet in the corridor.

我能听见走廊上啪哒啪哒的脚步声。

His heart went pit-a-pat.

他的心怦怦地跳。

When John asked Mary to marry him, her heart went pit-a-pat .

当约翰向玛丽求婚时，她的心卜卜地跳。

When they shook hands at parting her heart went pit-a-pat again.

当他们握手分别时，她的心又卜卜地跳起来。

These two literary delights still linger in my memory — and there is the other, the infants' classic: "the rain falls pit-a-pat, the tide comes up the river."

这两段通过文字引起的快乐至今仍留在我的记忆里- - -此外还有，就是幼时的古诗：“雨点滴滴下，潮水涨河上。”

Pit, pat, well-a-day, Little robin flew away; Where can little Robin be? come into the cherry tree.

小小知更鸟，边叫边飞掉；飞到哪里去？飞进樱树去。