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Hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. Time is important.

大家好,我是 Emma,欢迎来到美味英语频道。时间很重要。

We think about it, we talk about it many, many times a day, right from that moment you first wake up in the morning. Now, of course, we have lots of different ways to express time in English, specific collocations, fixed expressions and phrasal verbs that help you to express different relationships to time.

我们每天会思考很多次时间,我们会谈论很多次时间,就从你早晨醒来的那一刻开始。当然了,在英语中我们有很多不同的方式来表达时间,一些特定的搭配,固定的表达还有动词短语可以帮助大家不同的时间关系。

Today we're going to cover twenty-four useful expressions to help you talk about time, when you've got enough of it, or heaps of it, not enough of it. We'll also talk about some expressions that will help you to pass time and ask for more time, as well as some extra bonus idioms and expressions to help you express yourself clearly.

今天我们将要谈论时时刻刻都非常有用的表达,可以帮助大家谈论时间,当你时间充足,时间很多,或者是时间不够的情况。我们还将讨论一些表达方式,可以帮助大家打发时间,寻求更多的时间,以及一些额外的习语和表达,可以帮助大家更加清晰地表达自我。

So we've got a lot to get through today. We're going to move quickly.

我们今天可有很多东西要学习呢。我们得快点采取行动呢。

If you've got any questions at all, make sure you add them into the comments below so that I can answer them for you. Let's get started!

如果你有任何问题的话,一定要把它们写到下面的评论中,这样我就可以去回答问题啦。让我们开始吧!

Right now I'd like to spare a little bit of time for our wonderful friends at Lingoda who've been busy getting ready for their next big event, the ninety-day Lingoda Language Sprint. If you haven't registered yet, you've still got time because the closing date for registrations has been extended until the 26th of June.

现在我想花点时间为我们的好朋友 Lingoda 进行一下宣传,他们在忙着准备下一场盛事,也就是九十天 Lingoda 语言冲刺跑。如果你尚未注册的话,还有时间的哦,因为截止日期延长到6月26日啦。

Now you can get all the details about how it works and find out how you can get a one hundred percent refund on your class fees by checking out this video up here. Of all the places that you can learn a language online Lingoda are, in my opinion, one of the best.

大家可以点击这个视频,获得所有的这是如何运作的细节,以及找到你如何能得到全额课程费用退款的信息。在所有的在线学习语言平台之中,我认为 Lingoda 是最好的之一。

Anyone who watches my channel regularly knows that I've taken plenty of Spanish classes with Lingoda myself and I've also spent some time exploring the English curriculum and teaching methods. As a teacher, what I love about Lingoda is the clear structure of their lessons.

经常看我频道的人应该知道我在 Lingoda 上面上了很多西班牙语课,我也花了很多时间来探索英语课程和教学方法。作为一名老师,我最喜欢 Lingoda 的一点是他们清晰的课程结构。

You always know what you need to do next and you're always working your way towards your next certification. If you're interested in private one-to-one lessons, you can take those with Lingoda.

你永远知道下一步该怎么做,而且你总是在不断努力,获取下一个技能认证。如果你对私人一对一课程感兴趣的话,你可以在 Lingoda 上面找到这种课程。

But if you prefer to learn in small groups and meet other people, well you can take group classes as well. All of Lingoda's classes are delivered by native teachers and each one is live, it's interactive so you can participate and there are classes available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

但是如果你喜欢以小组形式和其他人一起学习的话,也可以参加小班课程。Lingoda 的所有课程均由母语为外语的老师教授,大家都是活生生的人,互动性很强,这样你就可以参与其中,每周每天每个小时都有课程提供。

So if you'd like to try it out, there are a couple of ways that you can get started. You can sign up for free for seven days and join up to three group classes or you can use this code to get a twenty euro discount off your first payment.

如果你想尝试一下的话,有几种方法可以开始。你可以进行注册并享受免费7 天体验期,最多参加三个小班课程,也可以使用这个优惠码获得第一次付款时二十欧元的折扣。

I'll put all of the links into the description below but it's definitely worth taking a look. Let me know what you think.

我会将所有链接放在下面的描述中,绝对值得一看。告诉我大家是怎么想的。

All right it's about time we got started and we're going to go through some collocations and some common expressions for when we have time, when we have enough or we have lots of time. So, of course, this collocation is really important.

好了,现在我们该开始了,我们将共同学习一些搭配和一些常见的表达,来描述当我们有足够的时间,或时间很多时的情况。当然,这种搭配真的很重要。

It's what this whole category is about. 'To have time' means that you're available for something or you're unoccupied or you're not busy and so you're able to do something.

这整一类都是与此有关的。“有时间”意思是你有空做某件事情,你的时间没有被其他的事情占据,你并不忙,所以你可以做点什么事情。

I have time to meet with you on Tuesday. And we can keep building on this because we have quite a few expressions that use 'have time', these fixed expressions.

我有时间在星期二与你见面。我们可以在此基础上继续添加,因为我们有很多表达使用“have time”,这些固定的表达。

So when you've got more time than you need, you have plenty of time, plenty of time. Not only do you have time for something but you've got a lot of time available for it.

因此,当你的时间超过所需的时间时,你就有很多时间。不只是有时间做某件事情,是你有很多时间可以做。

So if someone said to you "Are you sure you don't mind helping me? You could say "Sure, I have plenty of time" or "I've got plenty of time! I can help".

如果有人问你:“你确定你不介意帮我吗?”你可以说:“当然,我有很多时间。”或者是,“我有很多时间!我可以提供帮助”。

Another way to express the same thing is to say that you have time on your hands. Now this is a pretty casual phrase.

另外一种表达同样意思的方式是说你手头时间很充足。现在这是一个很随意非正式的句子。

It's often used when you find yourself with some unexpected time available. I had some extra time on my hands, so I offered to manage the community garden.

它经常用在当你发现自己有很多意料之外的时间的情况中。我手头时间很充裕,所以我主动提出要管理社区的花园。

And if you want to be really dramatic and exaggerate how much spare time you have, then you could say that you have all the time in the world. Now this expression is often used sarcastically, you know, to make a joke.

如果你想戏剧性一点,夸张地说你有多少空闲时间的话,那你可以说:我有世界上所有的时间。这个表达经常用来表达讽刺的意思,你懂得,就是开玩笑的时候。

So if I said "What day are you free to meet this week?" Well I quit my job so now I have all the time in the world!

如果我说:“你这周哪天有时间见面?”我辞掉了工作,现在可是个大闲人呢!

Take your time. Now this expression is useful when you want to tell someone else to relax, you know, they don't need to stress because you're not worried about how long it may take.

不用着急。当你想要告诉别人让他们放轻松时,这个表达非常有用,他们不需要有什么压力,因为你并不担心会花多长时间。

You have the time to wait so you say "Take your time." Another way to use this same expression is when you're doing something really slowly because you're really enjoying it.

你有时间等等待,所以你说:“不用着急。”当你做某件事情做的非常慢,因为你真的很享受其中的时候,也可以使用这个表达。

Take your time driving down the coast, there are lots of beautiful places to stop along the way. And pay close attention to that verb.

不用着急,沿着海岸线驱车行驶,一路上有很多美丽的地方可以驻足停留。要注意一下动词。

If you choose to use a verb with this expression, then you need to use the -ing form, not the infinitive.?No rush.

如果你选择在这个表达式中使用动词的话,那么你需要使用-ing形式,而非是不定式。不用着急。

This is another informal way of saying kind of the same thing, to take your time. No rush, there's no rush.

这是表达同样的意思的另外一种非正式的用法,不要急,慢慢来。不着急,不着急。

This is a fixed expression so it's always used in this way, kind of casually and it's usually something that you tell the other person. When do you need the report by?

这是一个固定表达,所以一直要这么用,一般来说是比较随意的,通常是你告诉别人不用着急。你什么时候需要报告?

No rush, anytime next week is fine! Now when you're talking about yourself and your own actions, you need to include a preposition.

不用着急,下周就可以!当你谈论自己和自己的行为时,你需要加入一个介词。

You need to say I'm not in a rush. No rush.

你需要说:我不着急。不着急。

I'm not in a rush. Okay on to the second list now.

我不着急。好的,让我们来到第二个列表。

I told you we'd be moving quickly. So we just talked about having time, maybe having lots of time but now we're going to talk about the opposite when there's a lack of time.

我告诉过你我们的步速可是会很快的。我们刚才谈论的是时间很充裕的情况,现在我们要谈论相反的情况,也就是我们时间不够。

Okay we don't have enough time. So in those situations, you can say that you are pressed for time.

好的,我们时间不够。在这些情况下,你可以说你的时间被挤压了(时间不够)。

It's often used as a way to remind someone to hurry up, to go a little bit faster. Look I'm a little pressed for time right now.

通常用作提醒某人快一点,别那么磨蹭。我现在时间不太够。

Can you just give me a call back once you know the answer? So it's probably a little formal so it's great to use in a professional context at work.

知道答案后,你能马上给我回电话吗?这可能有点正式,所以最好在工作场合中使用它。

If you want something more informal, then you can say that you are short on time. I'd love to catch up for lunch, but I'm a bit short on time today.

如果你想要一些非正式的表达的话,你可以说你的时间有限。我想去吃午餐,但是我今天时间有点不太够。

Can we meet next week instead? When you're running out of time, you're going as fast as you can but you have to finish something, you don't have enough time to do it.

我们可以下周再聚吗?当你时间不够的时候,你能赶多快就赶多快,但是你需要完成某件事情,你没有足够的时间去做了。

The time that you need to do it by is getting closer and closer and closer so you're running out of time. Now you use the continuous version when there's still a little bit of time left but it doesn't seem like enough, you know it's like: Hurry, hurry we're running out of time!

你需要完成这件事情的时间越来越近,越来越近了,所以你的时间不多了。如果还剩下一点点的时间的话,要使用进行时,但是看起来好像并不够,你知道情况是什么样的:快点快点,我们没时间了!

We've still got a little bit of time but there's not much time left. And we use the past tense when that time is already over, you know, we can't finish the action now, it's too late.

我们还有一点点时间,但剩下的时间不多了。当时间已经结束的时候,我们要使用过去时,我们没有完成这件事情,已经为时已晚。

I wanted to tidy up before my parents arrived but I ran out of time. So I never actually got to complete the action.

我想在家人回家之前打扫干净,但是我没时间了。我没有完成这个动作。

This is another great expression in this situation. When you're panicked, you're trying to finish before you run out of time, well then you're in a race against time.

在这种情况下,有另外一个很好的表达。当你非常恐慌,你努力地在时间耗尽之前完成,那这种情况你可以说你在和时间赛跑。

Me verse time right? Imagine that you are in a race with time, who's gonna win that race?

我和时间对抗,对吧?想象一下你在和时间比赛,谁会赢得那场比赛?

You know a literal race, you or time? The fire was moving quickly towards the town so the firefighters were in a race against time.

如果是真实的比赛的话,是你还是时间呢?火势正在迅速向城市蔓延,因此消防员们在和时间对抗。

Or they were racing against time. And if you do run out of time, then time's up.

他们在和时间对抗。如果你时间耗尽了的话,那么就是“时间到了”。

'Time's up' is what we say when there is officially no more time, you can't continue. Now it's almost always said in the contracted form, time's up, not time is up, but time's up.

当已经没有任何时间,你不能继续的时候,我们会说“时间到了”。它基本上都使用缩写形式,time's up, 不是 time is up, 而是 time's up.

And it can be used as a way of saying stop like when you're playing a game or when you're sitting an exam and the time finishes. If it was a one-hour exam, the exam finishes after an hour, put down your pencils.

当你在玩游戏或者是参加考试,时间到了的时候,这也可以用作叫停。如果是一个小时的考试,则该考试将在一个小时后结束,放下你的笔。

Time's up. Now if you don't have time but it's really important that you create some time, you need to make time.

时间到了。如果你没有时间,但是时间对你而言很重要的话,你需要创造一些时间。

Now it suggests that you need to make a decision, not to do something in order to create that time or to create the opportunity to do something. So you'll often hear people saying "I need to make more time for my kids"

这意味着你需要做出决定,不去做某件事情,来为做另一件事情创造时间或者是机会。你经常会听到人们说:“我必须为孩子挤出更多时间”。

I know it's really important for you so I'll make time to do it. Time is flying!

我知道这对你真的很重要,所以我会挤出时间来做。时间飞逝!

And that is our next category, time passing quickly. Don't you think that it's really weird that the same actual amount of time can pass really quickly for one person and then really slowly for another?

这是我们的下一类,时间飞逝类的表达。你不觉得这很奇怪吗?相同多的时间,有些人觉得过得很快,而有些人觉得过得很慢吗?

That's what we're going to talk about now. So 'time flies' and we use the continuous tense when whatever we're doing in that moment feels like it's happening really, really quickly.

我们现在就要讨论这个问题。“时光飞逝”,我们也可以使用进行时态,当我们在做某件事情的时候觉得时间真的过得非常非常快的时候。

Is it 2pm already? Time is flying! This is also when you start to hear strange expressions like "Where has the day gone?", like "The day's disappeared", but it's just that time is disappearing so quickly that it feels like half the day is gone.

已经下午两点了吗?时间飞逝啊!你也会在这种情况下听到奇怪的表达,比如说:“时间都去哪儿了?”,或者是:“时间莫名其妙消失了”,但其实就是时间过得如此之快,突然就过了大半天了。

Where's the day gone? And we use the simple present 'time flies' to make a general statement about when time passes quickly.

时间去哪儿了?我们使用的是一般现在时“time flies”来表达宽泛的时间飞逝的概念。

'Time flies when you're having fun' is a common expression and it's often shortened to simply 'time flies'. And when time passes so quickly, when you're doing something that you're so interested or you're so involved in doing that you don't realise how much time has passed then you lose track of time.

“当你玩得很开心时,时间就会过得飞快”,是一个常见的表达,一般就会被缩写为“时间飞逝”。当时间飞逝的时候,当你做一些你非常感兴趣的事情的时候,或者你太专注于做某件事情,以至于都没有注意到过去多少时间了,那你就是“忘了时间了”。

You've heard me talk about this expression before. It's usually used in the past tense after you finally have taken a break from whatever you've been doing and you suddenly realise how much time has passed.

你以前听我说过这个短语。它通常用过去时形式,当你终于可以从你一直做的事情中脱身休息一下,突然意识到竟然已经过了那么久了。

And finally, if you did lose track of time and you complete a task or something after you should have done it, then the best phrase to use is 'better late than never'. So this expression is quite a good informal or friendly apology to remind someone not to get upset because you've done something late.

最后,如果你忘记了时间,所以在规定时间之后才完成某件事情的话,那最好的短语就是:“迟做总比不做的强。”所以这个表达是一个很好的非正式或友好的道歉,提醒某人不要因为某件事情做得晚了而难过。

The fact is it got done and that's a good thing. So this is a fixed expression that doesn't really need further explanation.

总归是做完了,那就是很好的事情。这是一个固定表达,不需要继续进行解释。

So just imagine that your friend's birthday was last month and you completely forgot about it so you bought an extra special present to make up for it and you could say "Better late than never right?" So this expression is used for trips, you know, when you're on some kind of journey or a trip and you're actually getting there faster than you thought that you would so you're making good time.

想象一下上个月你朋友的生日,你完全忘记了这件事情,所以你额外买了一个特殊的礼物来进行弥补,你可以说:迟到总比没有的好,对吧?这个表达也可以用于旅行,你在旅途之中,你比自己预期的更早到了,所以你玩的很开心。

Now I think we're about halfway there. We're making good time!

我觉得路程大概已经过了一半了。我们玩得很开心!

Or you could say "We made good time! I wasn't expecting to be here by sunset."

或者可以说:“我们玩得很开心!我没想到日落之前能赶到这里。”

To make up for lost time. Now this expression is a really specific one.

为了弥补逝去的时间。这个表达是非常具体的。

She hasn't seen her mother in years and now they're making up for lost time! She missed out on seeing her mum for many, many years and now finally they're spending some time together.

她好多年没见妈妈了,现在它们在弥补逝去的光阴!她想念她的母亲很多很多年了,最终她们终于在一起欢度时光了。

Lots of time together and they do it more often to make up for the time that they didn't have before. Really good one to know, to make up for lost time.

她们有很多时间在一起,她们经常聚在一起,来弥补之前没有的那些时间。了解这个表达相当好,弥补失去的时间。

Now time doesn't always pass quickly, sometimes it passes so slowly. But hopefully, that's not the case now.

时间并不总是过得很快,有时候会过得很慢。但希望现在并不是这样。

So usually if you want time to go faster, to feel faster, then you need to do something to keep yourself busy for a while to pass time. Watching movies is a great way to pass time on a long flight.

如果你希望时间快一点,感觉时间过得快一点,那么你需要做点事情使自己忙碌起来来消磨时光。在长途飞行中,看电影是很好的消磨时间的方法。

A more informal version of that same phrase is to kill time. I've been killing time by listening to music before my appointment.

另外一个非正式的表达是:打发时间。我在约会之前听音乐打发时间。

Now it sounds kind of violent, doesn't it? But it's not.

听起来有点暴力,对吗?但事实并非如此。

This is just an expression. Now we often need to ask for more time, don't we?

只是一个表达方式而已。我们经常需要要求多一点时间,对吧?

When things are happening too quickly or too many things are happening at once. So often you need to ask someone politely to wait.

当事情太快的时候,或同时发生太多事情的时候。所以你经常需要礼貌地让某个人等待一下。

So imagine I'm on the phone and I'm speaking with someone and at the same time you come up to me to ask a question and I might say to you "Just give me a second. I'm on the phone." Or "Hang on a minute. I'm on the phone."

想象一下我正在打电话,和某人聊天,同时你也来找我问一个问题,我可能对你说:“请稍等一下。我正在打电话。”或者是:“稍等片刻,我在打电话。”

Now we always use a second or a minute in these expressions like a second is all of the time that you need. It doesn't really matter, it's just a way of asking for more time, for extra time.

我们在这些表达中说一秒钟或者是一分钟,好像我们就需要这么一点时间一样。但是其实没有关系,这只是要求给自己多点时间的方式罢了。

So even if it sounds ridiculous, it doesn't matter, you might need more than a minute or more than a second. But it's okay.

即使听起来很荒谬,也没关系,你可能需要不止一分钟或者是一秒钟的时间。但这没关系。

In fact, if you're speaking sort of informally with someone, the lazier version of that is to say "Give me a sec" and if you want to be even lazier again, then you can shorten the whole expression to "one sec". One sec, I'm on the phone.

其实呢,如果你在和某个人进行非正式的聊天,更加偷懒的一个版本可以说:“给我一秒钟”,如果你想再懒一点的话,那你可以把整个表达缩减成“一秒钟(请稍等片刻)”。稍等片刻,我正在打电话。

And that's important. Body language.

这很重要。身体语言。

One sec, I'm on the phone. Or you could say "Just a sec! I can't find my keys!"

请稍等,我正在打电话。或者你可以说:“等一下!我找不到我的钥匙了!”说。

Are we making good time? No we're almost out of time!

我们玩得开心吗?不,我们快没时间了!

But for those of you who have stuck with me all the way through, I've got some really awesome bonus idioms and expressions for you, ones that are really useful, really common expressions. Like this one, to do time.

想和那些和我一起坚持到现在的人说,我为大家准备了一些很好的加分习语和表达,它们是非常非常有用,非常非常常见的表达。就像这个一样,坐牢。

Now this sounds really general but it has a very specific meaning. To do time is to spend time in prison.

它听起来很笼统,但它却具有非常具体的含义。“To do time”就是在坐过监狱的意思。

He did time during his twenties because he was caught stealing. Now that is definitely one verb that you don't want to mistake right?

他二十岁的时候坐过监狱,因为他被抓到偷窃。这个东西你肯定不想用错,对吧?

An important collocation because it's only really used in that context to talk about someone in jail. A blast from the past.

这是一个非常重要的搭配,因为它只用于谈论某人坐牢的这种情况。岁月回响。

Now this is a really fun expression that I love to use. A blast from the past is kind of what it sounds like.

这是一个非常有趣的短语,我很喜欢使用。“过去的爆炸”意思如其名。

It's something or someone from your past who pops up and surprises you in the present moment so it usually brings back fond memories or positive memories. It's like if a favourite song that you haven't heard in years comes onto the radio, then you might say "Woah, this song is a blast from the past! Turn it up!"

过去的某件事情或者是某个人突然出现在当下,让你感到惊讶,将你带回那些美好的回忆当中。就像是你很喜欢的一首歌,已经很多年没有听了,突然出现在收音机中,那你可以说:“哇,这首歌让我想起了过去的时光!大点声!”

Now these expressions are both useful and very common in the workplace. So when you're presenting or you're giving an opinion or you're trying to summarise something, these can be so helpful.

这些表达在工作场合和非常有用,也很常见。当你展示的时候,给出自己的观点的时候,或者是进行总结的时候,这些会非常有用。

'In the long run' means over a long period of time where eventually something will happen. It's a big investment now but in the long run we'll make money.

“从长远来看”意味着很长一段时间之后,某件事情最终会发生的。现在看起来是一笔大投资,但从长远来看,我们会赚钱的。

Now 'in the short term' is the opposite right? From now until a point in the near future so it's probably months not years which is the long run.

那“短期”表达的就是相反的意思,对吧?从现在到不久的将来,可能是几个月,但不是几年,因为那就是长期了。

This space is going to work in the short term, but we'll need a bigger place eventually. All right here's the last one, 'before your time'.

这个地方短时间内还可以,但是我们最终还是需要一个更大一点的地方。好的,现在是最后一个了,“before your time”。

And this is an expression that kids really get tired of hearing because 'before your time', it means something that happened before you were born or just before you were paying attention. And you could say this to someone as a reason why they don't understand something you know.

这个表达孩子们可能已经听够了,因为“在你出生之前”的意思是在你降生人世之前发生的事情,或者是你在注意之前发生的事情。你可以跟某个人说这个表达,作为解释为什么他们不理解你知道的某件事情的原因。

Life before the internet was a lot different but it was before your time. So you wouldn't understand.

互联网出现之前的生活截然不同,但是那是你出生之前的事情了。所以你无法理解。

Or you can say it about yourself as an excuse why you don't understand something or why you don't know something. I'm not sure, that was before my time.

或者你可以以此为借口,来说你为什么不能理解某件事情,或者是为什么你不知道某件事情。我不确定,这是在我出生之前的事情了。

Believe it or not, there are even more expressions about time in English so if you can think of any others that I've missed in this lesson, then make sure you share them below. Use it in a sentence so that I can check it for you.

其实英文中还有很多的关于时间的表达,如果你想想到什么我在这节课程中漏掉的东西的话,一定要在评论区分享哦。用它造个句,方便我为大家检查。

You've probably noticed that you have to be very careful with prepositions and collocations about time. Many of these expressions that we went through today are fixed expressions which means you have to use the whole expression in your sentence or else it doesn't make any sense.

你可能已经注意到,在时间表达的介词和固定搭配你要格外小心。我们今天学到的很多表达方式都是固定表达,那也就意味着你需要在你的句子中使用完整的表达,否则就毫无意义。

Now I want to thank you for spending some time with me today going through these expressions, practising with me. I hope that you learned something new.

谢谢大家今天花时间和我一起学习这些表达,和我一起进行练习。我希望你们学到了一些新的东西。

Make sure you check out Lingoda, all the links are in the description below. Subscribe and make sure you keep practising with me in these lessons right here.

一定要去看看 Lingoda 哦,所有的链接都在下方描述区。记得要订阅,也要和我一起在这些课程中继续进行练习哦。

See you soon!

再见啦!

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