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Time ˈsʌmtaɪm Refer Future I Job Some·Time Adverb

The word "sometime" can be used as an adverb meaning at an unspecified time in the past or future, or as an adjective meaning former. It is important not to confuse it with "sometimes".

sometime [ADV 副词] (过去或将来的)某个时间 You use sometime to refer to a time in the future or the past that is unknown or that has not yet been decided. - The sales figures won't be released until sometime next month... - Why don't you come and see me sometime?... - I'm aiming to get to work by nine sometime... - I really want to go to Spain sometime. [ADJ 形容词] 前…(以前担任过某项职务) You use sometime to describe a job or role that a person used to have. - Cecile was in her early thirties, a sometime actress, dancer and singer. Usage Note : Take care not to confuse sometime and sometimes 切勿将 sometime 与 sometimes 混淆。

word sometime
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/sʌ̱mtaɪm/
1
[ADV 副词](过去或将来的)某个时间 You use sometime to refer to a time in the future or the past that is unknown or that has not yet been decided.
  [ADV with v]
  • The sales figures won't be released until sometime next month...

    下个月的某个时间才会公布销售数据。

  • Why don't you come and see me sometime?...

    为什么不找个时间来看看我?

  • I'm aiming to get to work by nine sometime...

    我准备 9 点左右开始工作。

  • I really want to go to Spain sometime.

    我真的很想找个时间去趟西班牙。

2
[ADJ 形容词]前…(以前担任过某项职务) You use sometime to describe a job or role that a person used to have.
  [ADJ n]
  • Cecile was in her early thirties, a sometime actress, dancer and singer.

    塞茜尔三十出头,曾经做过演员、舞蹈演员和歌手。

Usage Note :

Take care not to confuse sometime and sometimes

切勿将 sometime 与 sometimes 混淆。


Oxford some·time / ˈsʌmtaɪm ; NAmE ˈsʌmtaɪm /
adverb
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adjective
adverb ( also ˈsome time ) at a time that you do not know exactly or has not yet been decided 在某时(不确切或尚未决定) I saw him sometime last summer. 我去年夏天什么时候见过他。 We must get together sometime. 我们一定要找个时间聚一下。 adjective [only before noun ] ( formal) 1 used to refer to what sb used to be (指某人曾经是…)从前的,一度的 Thomas Atkins, sometime vicar of this parish 本教区先前的牧师托马斯 · 阿特金斯 2 ( NAmE) used to refer to what sb does occasionally (指某人做某事)偶尔的 a sometime contributor to this magazine 一位偶尔给本刊投稿的作者 some·time / ˈsʌmtaɪm ; NAmE ˈsʌmtaɪm /
LDC
sometime1 adverb
sometime2 adjective
sometimesome‧time1, ˈsome time /ˈsʌmtaɪm/ ●●● S2 adverb
Examples
Collocations
at a time in the future or in the past, although you do not know exactly whensometime around/in/during etc We’ll take a vacation sometime in September. Our house was built sometime around 1900.
sometime1 adverb
sometime2 adjective
sometimesometime2 adjective [only before noun]
Examples
1formal former:  Sir Richard Marsh, the sometime chairman of British Rail2American English used to say that someone does or has a particular job part of the time:  Grimm, a sometime delivery driver, lives with his elderly mother.
WDF

sometime

[ˈsʌmtaɪm]

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Spoken:

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改天(34%),来日(25%),以前的(25%),某时(16%)
adj.以前的;某一时间的
adv.改天;来日;在某一时候

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