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.
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.现在九点四十五分!
It's nine forty-five. =It's a quarter to ten.
2. 现在两点十七分!
It's two seventeen. =It's seventeen past two.
3. 现在三点钟!
It's three. =It's three o'clock.
4. 现在九点半!
It's nine thirty. =It's half past nine.
5. 现在六点十五分!
It's six fifteen. =It's a quarter past six.
6. 现在三点五十分!
It's three fifty. =It's ten to four.
世纪、年代、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
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
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 /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
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. 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
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
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
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 born in 1989.
She was born in August.
She was born in August 1989.
She was born on 2nd August, 1989.