日期的表达既可以先说天,也可以先说月份。
1月1日:the first of January / January the first.
2009年3月22日(去年) March the twenty-second 2009 / the twenty-second of March last year
去年此时:this time last year
在书面语中见到的日期在口语中一定要用序数词表示:
(October 1) October the first / the first of October
(May 2) May the second / the second of May
(March 23) March the twenty-third / the twenty-third of May
常见序数词的表达及发音如下:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
first
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
eighth
(only one "t")
ninth
(no "e")
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
eleventh
twelfth
("f", not "v")
thirteenth
fourteenth
fifteenth
sixteenth
seventeenth
eighteenth
nineteenth
20th
30th
40th
50th
60th
70th
80th
90th
twentieth
thirtieth
fortieth
fiftieth
sixtieth
seventieth
eightieth
ninetieth
十位数序数词的构成:
基数词+连字符(-) + 序数词, 如21st, 20th.
21st
25th
32nd
58th
64th
79th
83rd
99th
twenty-first
twenty-fifth
thirty-second
fifty-eighth
sixty-fourth
seventy-ninth
eighty-third
ninety-ninth
百位以上整数的序数词:
thousandth, millionth, billionth
同时注意在日期前使用的介词是on。例如:on the 14th of December
指出是哪个日期时,应用It’s . 例如 It’s April the first.
年份的说法:
通常在提到2000年之前的某一年时,我们把这四位数分成两部分来说。
1972 = nineteen seventy-two
1826 = eighteen twenty-six
2000年之后的年份,大多人(尤其是英式英语中)表述为 two thousand and X.
2009 = two thousand and nine.
也有一些年轻人将这四位数分成两部分来说
2008 = twenty oh eight
2010 = twenty ten
在谈论到小数,比例和百分比的时候,应该这样说:
1/2 = one half
1/3 = one third
1/4 = one quarter
1/5 = one fifth
1/6 = one sixth
4/5 = four fifths
1.3% = one point three percent
0.3% = nought / zero point three percent
2:1 = two to one
数字0 在不同的情况下说法也不同
足球等大多数体育运动比赛
3 : 0 = three nil
网球比赛与其他比赛比分说法完全不同
30 – 0 = Thirty love
电话号码中0多读成oh
406 2177 = four oh six…
小数中0可以说nought 也可以说zero
0.7 = nought point seven / zero point seven
温度中0多表示为zero
0 .C = zero degrees
在谈论加减乘除的运算时应该这样说
+ (plus)
3 + 2 = 5 (three plus two equals five)
- (minus / take away)
6 – 4 = 2 (six minus four equals two / six take away four equals two)
x (multiplied by / times)
3 x 4 = 12 (three multiplied by four equals twelve / three times four equals twelve)
/ (divided by)
8 / 2 = 4 (eight divided by two equals four)
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