时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   时差


  说起“时差”大家或许立马会想到:
  Time difference
  但它只能用来描述地理上的时间差异:
  What's the time difference between New York and Shanghai? 纽约和上海时差多少?
  谈到具体的时差,中文里会说快、慢了多久,但英文里用的是:
  Ahead of: 在…之前
  Behind: 在…之后
  Shanghai is 12 hours ahead of New York. 上海比纽约快12个小时。
  New York is 12 hours behind Shanghai. 纽约比上海慢12个小时。
  时区
  为了某一地区的人们使用统一的时间,人们划分了不同的时区:
  Time zones: 时区
  这是一个固定说法,不能说成time areas或time places。
  跨经度很大的国家通常会有好几个时区:
  6 time zones in America: 美国有6个时区
  美国大陆地区:
  EST = Eastern Standard Time: 东部标准时间
  PST = Pacific Standard Time: 太平洋标准时间
  MST = Mountain Standard Time: 山区标准时间
  CST = Central Daylight Time: 中部标准时间
  3月初到11月初,北美中部标准时间会调整使用夏令时CDT = Central Daylight Time,但即便如此人们还是都习惯说CST。
  美国大陆以外的地区:
  HAST = Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time: 夏威夷-阿留申时区
  AKST = Alaska Standard Time: 阿拉斯加标准时间
  如果坐飞机到了另一个时区,一定能听到飞机广播中说到这个词:
  Local time: 当地时间
  The local time in New York is 16:00. 纽约当地时间是16:00。
  What's the local time now? 现在的当地时间是几点?
  标准时间
  全世界的时间标准,也是国际上最常见的时区缩写:
  GMT = Greenwich Mean Time: 格林威治时间
  注意Greenwich的读音:/?ɡren?t? /
  中国是GMT+8,统一使用东八区作为标准时间:
  BST = Beijing Standard Time
  很多国家都会在天亮较早的夏季将时间调快:
  Daylight savings 1 time: 夏令时,夏时制
  Turn the clocks forward/back: 将时钟调快/调回
  倒时差
  如果要说时差很厉害,需要倒时差,一定要用到的表达:
  Jet lag: 时差反应
  怎么用:
  I feel so jet-lagged.
  I've got crazy jet-lag.
  The jet lag is killing 2.
  通常说到“jet lag”都是指一种不好的反应,需要去克服它:
  To get over jet lag. 倒时差
  很多人会服用一些帮助入睡的补充剂来帮助他们倒时差:
  Melatonin: /mel.??to?.n?n/ 褪黑素
  Sleep aid supplement: 辅助睡眠的补充剂

n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
标签: 美国文化
学英语单词
4-Nitrophenol-2-Hydroxylase
access panel
affidavit of document
aft end face of boss
air compressor lubricating oil tank
airborne target drone
Amindaion
antifriction box
archaeostomatous
authoritative restore
autogenetic plankton
automatic bladder
Axiidae
be running at sth
bilge-eddy resistance
body fluid deficiency
bumpass
centrifugal inertial separator
circuit with distributed constants
classification of characteristics
coccidologists
concordant
cucullaea labiata
demobilised
diamond-water paradox
direct broadcasting by satellite
dreave
electric submersible membrane pump
eyelid switch flap
Famafe
finan
fire-fighting water
forage reserves
gaggle
gelifract
genus Monomorium
greenstreet
groomed
hektographs
hold offer bait
impeditum
industrial death benefits
information highway
james russell lowell
kapok lifejacket
kragdadigheid
letter case
lint percentage
live matter
make one's number
marine zoogenetics
marten hair
Meckesville
microhemagglutination
Monotype casting machine
naphthonitril
needs-satisfying products
nihil est
not transferable
nsfh
nsse
nucleostratigraphy
offprice
oscillating subsoiler
personal liability policy
pitched markets
plasma rocket engine
polycomputer
prophyria
pussy's-toes
quarantine dues
radiation dermatitis
radio wave maser
raphe chorioideae
ratio export
ravah
reconceptualisation
refectioner
reinsurance arrangement
renocutaneous syndrome
right-hand grip rule
rubberbanded
sassoli
self-quench hardening
sexennials
Sheyenne R.
signal plane
sliding vector
Sonistan
spatten
stern bossing
suck it down
swing franc
Swiss cheese
T1c
take the arm
taking out of
tardigrada
the help
unconstrained motion
variable record length
Waldeyer's ring