一、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
二、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
三、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
四、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
五、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
六、整点的表达:
现在是两点整。It's two./It's two o'clock.
另外英语中的 noon 和midnight 可分别直接表示白天和夜晚的12点:
It's (twelve) noon. 现在是中午十二点。
It's (twelve) midnight. 现在是半夜零点。
七、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。
八、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)。
九、句子范例
- It's nine forty-five. =It's a quarter to ten.
- It's two seventeen. =It's seventeen past two.
- It's three. =It's three o'clock.
- It's nine thirty. =It's half past nine.
- It's six fifteen. =It's a quarter past six.
- 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 the1600s,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:inthe1930s,读作:in the thirties of the twentieth century或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或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 fty-three或two hundred and fifty-three
③另外:2000读作: two thousand,1902读作:nineteen hundred and two或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 a 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或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或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 或 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.