怎么用英语表达时间
英语课
一. 时间点的表达
1、所有的时间都可以用“小时 + 分钟”直接读:
6:10 six ten
8:30 eight thirty
2:40 two forty
2、如果所表述的时间在半小时之内,可以用“分钟 + past + 小时”:
6:10 ten past six
4:20 twenty past four
10:25 twenty-five past ten
3、如果所表述的时间在半小时之外,可以用“(相差的)分钟 + to + (下一)小时”:
10:35 twenty-five to eleven
5:50 ten to six
9:49 eleven to ten
4、如果所表述的时间恰好为半小时,可以用“half + past + 小时”:
11:30 half past eleven
2:30 half past two
5、如果所表述的分钟和15有关,就有三种表达法:
(15分钟又叫一刻钟:a quarter)
9:15 nine fifteen ; fifteen past nine ; a quarter past nine
3:45 three forty-five ; fifteen to four ; a quarter to four
6、整点的表达:
现在是两点整。It's two./It's two o'clock.
另外英语中的 noon 1 和midnight 2 可分别直接表示白天和夜晚的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。
7、大约时间:
It's almost 3 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。
8、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)。
9.句子范例
1. It's nine forty-five. =It's a quarter to ten.
2. It's two seventeen. =It's seventeen past two.
3. It's three. =It's three o'clock.
4. It's nine thirty. =It's half past nine.
5. It's six fifteen. =It's a quarter past six.
6. It's three fifty. =It's ten to four.
二. 世纪、年代、年、月、日的表达
1、世纪:
①用“定冠词+序数词+century 4”表示
例:在十七世纪写作:in the 17th century,读作:in the seventeenth 5 century
②用“定冠词+百位进数+s”表示
例:在十七世纪写作:in the 1600s,读作:in the sixteen hundreds
注意:这种情况下,实际表达的世纪数是阿拉伯数字本身加一。
2、年代
用“定冠词+(世纪百位进数+十位年代数)+s”表示
例:在二十世纪三十年代写作:in the 1930s,读作:in the thirties of the twentieth 6 century或 in the nineteen thirties
表示某年代的早期、中期和晚期,可以在定冠词后添加early, mid-和late
例如:
在二十世纪二十年代早期 in the early 1920s;
在二十世纪五十年代中期 in the mid-1950s
3、年月日
1)年份
① 读年份时一般分为两个单位来读,前两个数为一个,后两个数为一个:
1949 读作:nineteen forty-nine或nineteen hundred and forty-nine
② 如果是三位数,先读第一位,再把后两个数合起来读:
253 读作:two fifty-three或two hundred and fifty-three
③ 另外: 2000 读作:two thousand,1902 读作:nineteen hundred and two或 nineteen o two
④ 如果要使用year,year放在数词之前
例如:in the year two fifty-three B.C. 在公元前253年
2)月份
月份是专有名词,除了少数几个月份外都有缩写形式:
January - Jan. 一月
February - Feb. 二月
March - Mar 7. 三月
April - Apr. 四月
August - Aug. 八月
September - Sept. 九月
October - Oct. 十月
November - Nov. 十一月
December - Dec. 十二月
注意:缩写形式后面的点不能省略,因为它是表示缩写形式的符号。
3)日期:
用序数词表示
例:十月一日写作:October 1, October 1st, 1 October, 1st October, (the) 1st of October等,其中的October都可以写成缩写形式Oct.
读作:October the first或the first of October
4)年月日
用英语表达年月日的顺序:
① 月\日\年
例:2002年1月17日
写作:January 17(th), 2002或January seventeenth, 2002(日和年之间需用逗号隔开)
读作:January the seventeenth, two thousand and two
②日\月\年
例:2002年1月17日
写作:17(th) January, 2002或the seventeenth of January, 2002(月和年之间需用逗号隔开)
读作:the seventeenth of January, two thousand and two
4. 介词的使用:
若指在哪一年或哪一月,用介词in;若具体到某一天,需用介词on。
例如:
She was 8 born 9 in 1989.
She was born in August.
She was born in August 1989.
She was born on 2nd August, 1989.
n.中午,正午;最高点;全盛期
- She often read newspaper at noon.她常在中午看报。
- I'll be back before noon.我会在正午之前回来。
n.午夜
- The ship pulled in to the shore at midnight.那船半夜时靠岸。
- He looked at the moon and made the time to be midnight.他看了看月亮,估计时间是半夜了。
adv.几乎,差不多
- The band has been on the road for almost a month. 那支乐队进行巡回演出近一个月了。
- We stay in almost every night and watch television.我们几乎每个晚上都在家里看电视。
n.世纪;百年
- As a writer, he really belongs to the 18 th century. 作为一个作家, 他的确属于18世纪。
- We live in the 21st century.我们生活在二十一世纪。
num.第十七
- It was Mary's seventeenth birthday.那是玛丽的十七岁生日。
- It happened on January the seventeenth. 事情发生在1月17日。
n.二十分之一;num./adj.第二十
- Tomorrow is her twentieth birthday.明天是她二十岁生日。
- He is the twentieth on the list.在名单上他是第二十个。
vt.破坏,毁坏,弄糟
- It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
- Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
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