对时间点表达的考查一直是高考英语的重点,它渗透到各个题型中,而且,在日常生活中我们也会经常用到。另外,对世纪、年月日的表达比较繁琐,就算对学习英语很多年的人来说,也不见得可以表达准确。所以,今天总结了这两方面的内容,一起来和同学们学习!
2. 如果所表述的时间在半小时之内,可以用“分钟 + past + 小时”
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
4. 如果所表述的时间恰好为半小时,可以用“half + past + 小时”
9:15 nine fifteen ; fifteen past nine ; a quarter past nine
3:45 three forty-five ; fifteen to four ; a quarter to four
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。
It's not quite two. 还不到两点。
It's just after two. 刚过两点。
如:thirteen past six a.m.(上午六点十三分)。
如:four o'clock p.m.(下午四点)。
1. It's nine forty-five. =It's a quarter to ten.
2. It's two seventeen. =It's seventeen past two.
3. It's three. =It's three o'clock.
4. It's nine thirty. =It's half past nine.
5. It's six fifteen. =It's a quarter past six.
6. It's three fifty. =It's ten to four.
例:在十七世纪 写作:in the 17th century,读作:in the seventeenth century
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。
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
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
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 fifty-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
例如:in the year two fifty-three B.C. 在公元前253年
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。
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
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
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
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 August 1989.
She was born on 2nd August, 1989.
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