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.
二、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.