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英语中关于年龄的表达你知道多少?
1.表示“整岁”,直接用基数词或year,age,例如“他20岁”可表示为:
He is twenty.
He is twenty years old.
He is a twenty-year-old man.
He is aged twenty.
He is at age twenty.
He is at the age of twenty.
He is twenty years of age.
2.表示“在某人几十多岁”,用“in one's +基数词复数形式”,例如:
他七十多岁。He is in his seventies.(从70岁到79岁之间)
她五十多岁。She is in her fifties.(从50岁到59岁之间)
还可以借助early,middle,late来表达得更明确一些,例如:
那女孩今年二十二、叁岁。The girl is in her early twenties.
他今年十四、五岁。He is in his middle teens.
她今年二十八、九岁。She is in her late twenties.
3.表示“快满多少岁”用进行时或将来时,例如“他快满十八岁了”可说成:
He is getting on for eighteen.
He is going on eighteen years old.
He will be eighteen years old.
It will be his eighteenth birthday.
4.表示“不满多少岁”,用副词barely,nearly,al- most,quite,yet,just等,例如“她不满十七岁”有以下几种说法:
She is barely /nearly /almost seventeen.
She is not quite /yet seventeen.
She is just under seventeen.
5.表示“差多久满多少岁”用介词off,例如:
他差5个月就满19岁了。He is five months off nineteen.
她再过3年就50岁了。She is three years off fifty.
6.表示“超过多少岁”用介词past,例如:
他已年过50。He is past fifty.
他是一个过了中年的人。He is a man past middle age.
那孩子两岁零两个月。The baby is two months past two years old.
英语干货:英语中的时间表达,全在这里啦!
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,就有叁种表达法:
(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.
上午六点十叁分。
four o'clock p.m.
下午四点。
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:在二十世纪叁十年代
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 如果是叁位数,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. 叁月
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.