时间表达

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:

It's two./It's two o'clock.

现在是两点整。

(另外英语中的 noon 和 midnight 可分别直接表示白天和夜晚的12点)

现在是中午十二点。

It's (twelve) noon.

现在是半夜零点。

It's (twelve) midnight.

7. 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。

8. 若想表明是上午,可在时间后加上a.m.;同理,下午加p.m.

thirteen past six a.m.

上午六点十三分。

four o'clock p.m.

下午四点。


- 练一练 -

现在九点四十五分!

It's nine forty-five. =It's a quarter to ten.

现在两点十七分!

It's two seventeen. =It's seventeen past two.

现在三点钟!

It's three. =It's three o'clock.

现在九点半!

It's nine thirty. =It's half past nine.

现在六点十五分!

It's six fifteen. =It's a quarter past six.

现在三点五十分!

It's three fifty. =It's ten to four.


世纪、年、月、日的表达

1. 世纪:

① 用“定冠词+序数词+century”表示

例:在十七世纪

写作:in the 17th century

读作:in the seventeenth 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:

① 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 century

in the nineteen thirties

② 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

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

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

two hundred and fifty-three

③ 另外:

2000

读作:two thousand

1902

读作:nineteen hundred and two

nineteen o two

④ 如果要使用year,year放在数词之前:

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. 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

the first of October

(4)年月日

① 月\日\年

例:2002年1月17日

写作:January 17(th), 2002

January seventeenth, 2002

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

the seventeenth of January, 2002

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。

She was born in 1989.

She was born in August.

She was born in August 1989.

She was born on 2nd August, 1989.

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