Exps on March 24th (cont.)

询问时间

What time is it? = Do you have the time? = Have you got a watch? = Have you got the time? 现在几点了？
Do you have some time? = Do you have a minute / second? 你现在有时间吗 What's up?
Does your watch keep good time? 你的表准么？
Sure, my watch keeps very good time.
Oh, my watch gains time. 走得快 My watch gains two minutes every day.  It is 2 minutes ahead of time. 快两分钟
My watch loses time. 走得慢 My watch loses three minutes every day. It is 3 minutes behind the time. 慢三分钟
set the tone 定调；set sth. 调整；set the clock 对表；set the alarm clock 调闹钟
set the clock by the time signal on the radio / on TV. 根据...对表
set my watch to 4 o'clock. 对到4点钟
wrist watch 腕表
Can you tell the time? 你们认表么？
half past ten = half of ten 过半小时
a quarter to ten = a quarter before ten 差半小时
It's two o'clock sharp in the morning. 现在是凌晨两点整

场景：表慢了

A：It's getting dark.
B：Yes, what time is it？ I don't have my watch with me.
A：It's ten minutes to five.
B：Perhaps your watch is slow.
A：Oh, it has stopped(表停了). I must have forgotten(对过去的确定猜测) to wind it(上表) last night.
B：Let's ask Mary over there. Mary，have you got the time？
C：Yes，it's six twenty.
B：Is your watch right?
C：I think so. I set it by the radio this morning.

场景：等公车

A：We've been waiting here for nearly ten minutes now，and there still isn't a bus in sight(在视线所及范围之内).
B：I'm afraid we'll be late for the party.
A：Have you got the time, Tom?
B：Yes, my watch says a quarter to seven.
A：You got the time?
B：No, there is something wrong with my watch!
A：But you bought it only last month.
B：Yes, but ever since I bought it, it gains about five minutes a day, so I've got to have it repaired.
A：How long will it take us to get there?
B：I think about ten minutes by bus.
A：It's not far away, then. Let's walk, it's beginning to rain.
B：Wait! I think I see a bus coming now. Let's hope it's the No. 22 bus.

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minute=细微的，精确的
date=枣
blind date 初次约会
a cent=a penny 一美分
a nickle=5美分
dime=10美分
quarter=25美分
the reform and opening up policy 改革开放政策
centennial 百年的
world economic integration 世界经济一体化
schoolday 校庆日
centennial anniversary of the founding of the school 百年校庆
millennium 千年 millennial 千年的
Y2K=year two thousand 或 millennium bug千年虫
paper wedding 纸婚 结婚一年 the first wedding anniversary
silver wedding 银婚 结婚25年 25th wedding anniversary
golden wedding 金婚 结婚50年 50th wedding anniversary
solar calendar 阳历公历 lunar calendar 阴历
365=the common year平年
366=the leap year闰年
三思后行 think before your leap
你是哪个生肖年出生的？What's your year animal (according to the lunar calendar)？ I was born under the rabbit year.

 

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