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.