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几点钟表达
一 最直接的读法:“小时 + 分钟”:
5:10 five ten 7:30 seven thirty 2:40 two forty
二 巧用介词法:
(1)所表述的时间在30分钟之内,用“分钟 + past / after + 小时”:
6:10 ten past six(英式) / ten after six(美式)
4:20 twenty past four / twenty after four
10:25 twenty-five past ten / twenty-five after ten
(2)所表述的时间在30分钟之后,用“(相差的)分钟 + to /before + (下一)小时”:
10:35 twenty-five to eleven(英式 ) / twenty-five before eleven(美式)
5:50 ten to six / ten before six
9:49 eleven to ten / eleven before ten
(3) 所表述的时间恰好为半小时,用“half + past + 小时”:
11:30 half past eleven 2:30 half past two
(4) 所表述的分钟和15有关,有三种表达法:
(15分钟又叫一刻钟:a quarter)
9:15 - nine fifteen ; fifteen past nine ; a quarter past nine(英式)/
a quarter after nine(美式)
3:45 - three forty-five ; fifteen to four ; a quarter to four / a quarter before four
(5)整点
现在是五点整。
It's five. It's five o'clock.
三 另外,还有这种情况:
Noon:表示白天的12点 , midnight:表示夜晚的12点
at noon正午12点, at midnight午夜12点
It's (twelve) noon. 现在是中午十二点。
It's (twelve) midnight. 现在是半夜零点。
四 大约时间:
It's almost two. 马上到两点了。
It's not quite two. 还不到两点。
It's just after two. 刚过两点。
五 若想表明是上午,可在时间后加上a.m.
如:thirteen past six a.m.(上午六点十三分)。
若想表明是下午,可在时间后加上p.m.,
如:four o'clock p.m.(下午四点)。
六 提前半小时
half an hour early / thirty minutes early / early by half an hour / half an hour ahead of time /half an hour ahead of schedule.
例:I get up at ten to eight. 我7:50 起床。
年月日表达方法
1) 8th March,2004 或8 March,2004(英式)
2) March 8th,2004 或March 8,2004 (美式)
日期写法宜遵从下列规则:
1)年份必须完全写明,不可用"04代替2004;
2)月份必须用英文拼出或采用公认的简写,即
January(Jan)
February(Feb.) March(Mar.) April(Apr.)
May, June, July,
August (Aug.) September(Sept.) October(Oct.)
November(Nov.) December(Dec.)
3)日期可用序数词,如:1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th,...;也可用基数词,如:1,2,3,4,.但美式大多采用后者;
例:4)在年份和月日之间必须用逗号隔开;
如2017年2月9日。
写法:
9th February, 2017(英式)
February 9, 2017(美式)
读法:
The ninth February, twenty seventeen(英式)
February the ninth, twenty seventeen(美式)
时间介词用法
一、 用in的场合
(1)表示“在某年/月/季节”这个含义时,须用介词in.
例如:in 1980. in may in spring.
(2)表示“从现在起一段时间以后”时,须用介词in.
例如:They will go to see you in a week.
(3)表示“在某世纪”时,须用介词in.
例如:This machine was invented in the eighteenth century.
(4)表示“在某年代或特定世纪某年代”时,须用介词in.
例如:This incident happened in the 1970's.
除此之外,morning / evening / afternoon 三个词也常跟介词in连用.
二、用on的场合
(1)表示“在具体的某一天”或“(在具体的某一天的)早上、中午、晚上”等,须用介词on.
例如:on May 10th,1982, on a rainy morning, on a summer afternoon.
(2)表示“在星期几”或“在星期几的早上、中午、晚上”等,须用介词on.例如:
on weekdays,on Saturday morning, on monday.
(3)表示“在某一节日”时,须用介词on.
例如:on Mid-autumn Festival,on Teachers''''Day.
注意:当morning,evening,afternoon被of短语修饰,习惯上用in,而不用on.例如:
in the early morning of September 10th 在9月10的清晨;
in the late afternoon of September 12th 在9月12日的傍晚.
三、用at的场合
(1)表示“某一具体时刻(即几点几分时)”,须用介词at.例如:at six
(2)用在特定的时候(时节、时机)时,须用介词at.例如:
They were happy at that time.他们那时很幸福.
(3)表示“在中午、在夜晚、在周末(on/at)”时,须用介词at.
例如:What do you often do at noon?你中午经常做些什么?
You can see many stars in the sky at night.夜晚你能看到天空中有许多星星.
(4)表示“在……岁”时,须用介词at.例如:
At the age of nine ,the boy could swim well.在九岁的时候,这孩子就游泳游得很好了.
四、用by的场合
by+时间名词.意为:“到…时(已发生某事),此时谓语多用完成时;
最晚、不迟于…,在…之前”.
如:by now /then /this time /next Friday /the end of /three o`clock等.
By the end of last year,another new gymnasium had been completed.
到去年年底,又有一座新体育馆峻工了.
The train leaves at 6:00 pm.So I have to be at the station by 5:40 pm at the latest.火车下午六点开,所以最晚我得五点四十赶到车站.
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