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time n.时间；时代；时期；倍；次数；节拍v.为…安排时间；计时；[体]在某一时刻击球adj.时间的；定时的；分期（付款）的；定期的 (1) 只有时间才能证明你是否正确。(2) 阅读占去了我大部分的闲暇时间。(3) 我看了一下手表好知道准确的时间。(4) 这酒馆的打烊时间是十一点。(5) 她是那个时代最进步的作家。(6) 战争时期糖是配给的。(7) 那是他一生之中最幸福的时期。(8) 这个房间比那个大三倍。(9) 他考驾驶执照五次都没及格。(10) 三/四拍是华尔滋曲的节拍。(11) 那位经验丰富的车手总是能够完美地掌握出发的时间。(12) 赛跑计时就是看看比赛要花多少时间。(13) 这鸡蛋煮老了---你没掌握好火候.(14) 他这一击时间恰到好处。(15) 地球被分为二十四个时区。(16) 暖气靠定时开关自动供热。(17) 警察在那幢大楼里查出一枚定时炸弹。(18) 分期付款(19) 定期贷款(20) 这张期票年底到期。 You can have a great time at a party, serve time in jail, or keep time while making music. You can time the runners in a race by keeping track of how long it takes them to finish. Time flies when you're having fun, but sometimes it feels like you have all the time in the world. It's hard to find the right time for some things — like proposing marriage. When you die, your time has run out.

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英 [taɪm] 美 [taɪm] (1) Only time will tell if you are right.(2) Reading occupies most of my free time.(3) I referred to my watch for the exact time.(4) Closing time at this pub is eleven o' clock.(5) She is the most progressive writer of the time.(6) Sugar is under allocation during war time.(7) It was the happiest time in his wife .(8) The room is three times larger than that one.(9) He failed his driving test five times.(10) Three-fourths meter is waltz time.(11) The experienced car racer can always time his start to perfection.(12) To time a race is to see how long it takes.(13) This egg is hard---you didn't time it properly.(14) He timed that shot beautifully.(15) The earth is divided into 24 time zones.(16) The heating is on a time switch.(17) The police defected a time bomb in the building.(18) a time payment(19) a time loan(20) This time draft will fall due at the end of this year. Time is the movement from past to present to future. You can tell time with a clock, and it takes time to do anything. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]时间 Time is what we measure in minutes, hours, days, and years. ...a two-week period of time...两周的时间Time passed, and still Ma did not appear...时间一点点过去，马先生仍然没有出现。As time went on the visits got more and more regular...随着时间的流逝，探访变得越来越频繁。The social significance of religion has changed over time.宗教的社会意义随着时间的变迁已经发生了变化。2[N-SING 单数名词]时刻；时候；钟点 You use time to ask or talk about a specific point in the day, which can be stated in hours and minutes and is shown on clocks.   [wh/the N]'What time is it?' — 'Eight o'clock.'...“几点钟了？”——“8点钟。”He asked me the time...他问我几点了。What time did he leave?...他什么时候离开的？I phoned my mother to ask what time she was coming home...我打电话给母亲问她几点回家。The time is now 19 minutes past the hour.现在的时间是整点过19分。3[N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:opening time；规定时间 The time when something happens is the point in the day when it happens or is supposed to happen. Departure times are 08:15 from St Quay, and 18:15 from St Helier.从圣奎伊的出发时间是 8 点 15 分，从圣赫利尔的出发时间是 18 点 15 分。4[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](某一时区的)时间 You use time to refer to the system of expressing time and counting hours that is used in a particular part of the world.   [supp N]The tidal predictions are expressed in Greenwich Mean Time. Add one hour for British Summer Time...潮汐预报用的是格林尼治标准时间。英国夏令时要在标准时基础上加一小时。The incident happened just after ten o'clock local time.事件发生在当地时间 10 点刚过。5[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](用来做某事或某事发生的)时间 You use time to refer to the period that you spend doing something or when something has been happening.   [also a N]Adam spent a lot of time in his grandfather's office...亚当经常呆在他祖父的办公室里。He wouldn't have the time or money to take care of me...他既不会有时间也不会有钱来照顾我。Listen to me, I haven't got much time...听着，我没多少时间。It's obvious that you need more time to think...显然你需要更多时间来思考。The route was blocked for some time...道路被堵了一段时间。For a long time I didn't tell anyone...很久我都没有告诉任何人。A short time later they sat down to eat...过了一小会儿，他们坐下来吃东西。Thank you very much for your time.非常感谢你抽出了宝贵时间。6[N-SING 单数名词](相当长的)一段时间 If you say that something has been happening for a time, you mean that it has been happening for a fairly long period of time.   [a N]He was also for a time the art critic of 'The Scotsman'...有相当长的一段时间他为《苏格兰人》报撰写艺术评论。He stayed for quite a time...他呆了相当长的一段时间。After a time they came to a pond.过了好久，他们来到一个池塘。7[N-COUNT 可数名词](某事发生的)一段(或特定)时间 You use time to refer to a period of time or a point in time, when you are describing what is happening then. For example, if something happened at a particular time, that is when it happened. If it happens at all times, it always happens.   [with supp]We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time...我们那时在同一所学院，当时只招男生。By this time he was thirty...到那时他 30 岁了。During the time I was married I tried to be the perfect wife...在那段婚姻生活中，我努力要做个完美的妻子。It was a time of terrible uncertainty...那是一切都很不确定的一段时间。Homes are more affordable than at any time in the past five years...现在住宅比过去5年里的任何时候都要便宜。It seemed like a good time to tell her...那似乎是告诉她的好时机。There were times when he would ring his bell at all hours of the day or night.有段时间，他白天或晚上随时都可能摁铃。8[N-COUNT 可数名词]历史时期；时代 You use time or times to talk about a particular period in history or in your life.   [with supp]They were hard times and his parents had been struggling to raise their family...那是段艰苦时期，他父母一直艰辛地养家糊口。We'll be alone together, quite like old times...我们会单独在一起，就像过去那样。We are in one of the most severe recessions in modern times...我们正在经历现代最严重的一段经济衰退。A 'Felucca' is the traditional Nile sailboat, unchanged since the time of the pharaohs.Felucca 是尼罗河地区的传统帆船，自法老时代起就没有变过。9[N-PLURAL 复数名词]当代；时代潮流 You can use the times to refer to the present time and to modern fashions, tastes, and developments. For example, if you say that someone keeps up with the times, you mean they are fashionable or aware of modern developments. If you say they are behind the times, you mean they are unfashionable or not aware of them.   [the N]He is unafraid to move with the times...他敢于与时俱进。This approach is now seriously out of step with the times...这种方法如今与时代潮流严重脱节。Johnny has changed his image to fit the times.约翰尼已经改变了他的形象以迎合时代潮流。10[N-COUNT 可数名词](经历的)一段时间，时期 When you describe the time that you had on a particular occasion or during a particular part of your life, you are describing the sort of experience that you had then.   [adj N]Sarah and I had a great time while the kids were away...孩子们不在的时候，我和萨拉度过了一段美好时光。She's had a really tough time the last year and a half...这一年半以来，她度过了一段非常艰难的时期。You had an easy time of it at home...你在家度过了一段轻松时光。I try to remember all the good times I've had here.我试着回忆在这里度过的所有美好时光。11[N-SING 单数名词]生命（期）；期限；时限 Your time is the amount of time that you have to live, or to do a particular thing.   [poss N]Now Martin has begun to suffer the effects of AIDS, and he says his time is running out...现在马丁开始遭受艾滋病的折磨，他说他的生命就要走到尽头。Every administration has its time. And when your time is over, you leave...每届政府都有其执政期限，任期届满时就得下台。I doubt I would change anything if I had my time again.如果能重新活过，我不确定自己是否愿意做出任何改变。12[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](从事特定活动的)合适时候 If you say it is time for something, time to do something, or time you did something, you mean that this thing ought to happen or be done now.   [oft N for n]Opinion polls indicated a feeling among the public that it was time for a change...民意测验表明，公众认为到了改革的时候了。It was time for him to go to work...他该去上班了。This was no time to make a speech...这不是长篇大论的时候。The time has come to put an end to the conflict...结束冲突的时候到了。It's time you went to school.你该去上学了。13[N-COUNT 可数名词]次；回 When you talk about a time when something happens, you are referring to a specific occasion when it happens.   [with supp]Every time she travels on the bus it's delayed by at least three hours...每次她乘公车出行都至少耽搁3个小时。The last time I saw her was about sixteen years ago...我上次见她大约是 16 年前了。House prices are rising for the first time since November...房价自 11 月以来首次上涨。Next time you go shopping, throw in a few extra fruit and vegetables...下次你去买东西，多买点水果蔬菜。Remember that time she picked up my daughter when I was ill?还记得那次我生病，她替我接女儿吗？14[N-COUNT 可数名词]次 You use time after numbers to say how often something happens.   [usu num/ord N]It was her job to make tea three times a day...她的差事就是每天沏3次茶。How many times has your mother told you never to talk to strangers?...你母亲告诉你多少次了，绝不能和陌生人谈话？The Masters golf tournament was won a second time by the American Ben Hogan.美国的本·霍根再次夺得高尔夫大师锦标赛冠军。Usage Note :You do not say 'one time a year' or 'two times a year'； you say once a year or twice a year. You also do not say 'two times as much'； you say twice as much.“一年一次”或“一年两次”不能说 one time a year 或 two times a year，而要说 once a year 或 twice a year。“两倍那么多”也不能说 two times as much，而要说 twice as much。15[N-PLURAL 复数名词]倍 You use times after numbers when comparing one thing to another and saying, for example, how much bigger, smaller, better, or worse it is.   [num N compar]Its profits are rising four times faster than the average company...它的利润增长速度比一般公司快4倍。Young people were several times more likely to be out of work than older members of the workforce...劳动人口中，年轻人失业的可能性是年长者的好几倍。He polled four times as many votes as his rival.他得到的选票数量是竞选对手的4倍。...an area five times the size of Britain.面积为英国领土5倍大的区域16[CONJ-COORD 连词]乘以 You use times in arithmetic to link numbers or amounts that are multiplied together to reach a total. Four times six is 24.4 乘以 6 等于 24。17[N-COUNT 可数名词](赛跑等)所用时间，成绩 Someone's time in a race is the amount of time it takes them to finish the race.   [with supp]He was over a second faster than his previous best time...他比自己以前的最好成绩快了 1 秒多。She recorded a time of two minutes 8.74 seconds.她以两分 8 秒 74 的成绩创了纪录。18[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]拍子；节拍 The time of a piece of music is the number of beats that the piece has in each bar.   [usu supp N]A reel is in four-four time, and a jig is in six-eight time.里尔舞曲是四四拍，吉格舞曲是六八拍。19[VERB 动词]给…确定时间；为…安排时间 If you time something for a particular time, you plan or decide to do it or cause it to happen at this time.   [V n to-inf]  [V n for n]  [V n adv]  [V-ed]  [Also V n]He timed the election to coincide with new measures to boost the economy...他把选举安排在振兴经济的新政策出台时。We had timed our visit for March 7...我们把访问时间确定在3月7日。He had timed his intervention well...他选择介入的时机恰到好处。Operation Amazon is timed to coincide with the start of the dry season.拯救亚马孙河的行动安排在了旱季来临之际。20[VERB 动词]测定…所花时间 If you time an action or activity, you measure how long someone takes to do it or how long it lasts.   [V n]He timed each performance with a stop-watch.他用秒表测定每组动作所花的时间。21See also:timing；  22[PHRASE 短语]该是…的时候了；早该…了 If you say it is about time that something was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.   [it v-link PHR that]  [emphasis]It's about time a few movie makers with original ideas were given a chance...该给为数不多的几个有创见的电影制作者一个机会了。'Here she is.' — 'About time too.'“她来了。”——“也早该来了。”23[PHRASE 短语]提前；预先 If you do something ahead of time, you do it before a particular event or before you need to, in order to be well prepared.   [PHR after v]Find out ahead of time what regulations apply to your situation.提前搞清楚什么规章适用于你的情况。24[PHRASE 短语](思想)先进，领先于时代 If someone is ahead of their time or before their time, they have new ideas a long time before other people start to think in the same way.   [v-link PHR]My mother was ahead of her time. She surrounded me with culture and art.我母亲思想前卫，给予了我文化和艺术的熏陶。His only fundamental mistake, he insists, is that he was 20 years before his time.他坚持认为，他仅有的根本性错误是他比时代超前了20年。25[PHRASE 短语]一直；始终 If something happens or is done all the time, it happens or is done continually.   [PHR after v]We can't be together all the time...我们不能始终在一起。I get the two of them mixed up all the time, they're so similar.我一直把他们俩弄混，他俩太像了。26[PHRASE 短语]一次；每次 You say at a time after an amount to say how many things or how much of something is involved in one action, place, or group.   [amount PHR]Beat in the eggs, one at a time...打入鸡蛋，一次一个。She ran for the staircase and down the steps, taking them two at a time...她跑向楼梯，一步两级地奔下台阶。Do you sometimes find that you are doing very little physical exercise for several weeks at a time?你有时会不会发现自己一连几个星期都没怎么锻炼过？27[PHRASE 短语]随时；任何时候 If something could happen at any time, it is possible that it will happen very soon, though nobody can predict exactly when.   [PHR with cl]Conditions are still very tense and the fighting could escalate at any time.局势仍然非常紧张，战斗随时可能升级。28[PHRASE 短语]即使在最好的情况下 You say at the best of times when you are making a negative or critical comment to emphasize that it is true even when the circumstances are as favourable as possible.   [PHR with cl]  [emphasis]A trade war would be bad at the best of times, but in the current economic climate, it would be a disaster.即使在情况最好的时候贸易战都是有害无利的，而在当前这种经济形势下只会是一场灾难。29[PHRASE 短语]一度；曾经 If you say that something was the case at one time, you mean that it was the case during a particular period in the past.   [PHR with cl]At one time 400 men, women and children lived in the village.曾经有 400 个男人、女人和孩子居住在村子里。...enormous glaciers, which at one time covered vast areas of the northern hemisphere.一度覆盖了北半球辽阔区域的巨大冰川30[PHRASE 短语]同时 If two or more things exist, happen, or are true at the same time, they exist, happen, or are true together although they seem to contradict each other.   [PHR with cl]I was afraid of her, but at the same time I really liked her...我害怕她，但同时也确实喜欢她。She was somehow able to look sad and cheerful at the same time.她能够做出又悲又喜的神情。31[PHRASE 短语]然而；不过 At the same time is used to introduce a statement that slightly changes or contradicts the previous statement.   [PHR with cl]I don't think I set out to come up with a different sound for each album. At the same time, I do have a sense of what is right for the moment.我不觉得我一开始就特意为每张专辑设定了不同的曲风。然而，我确实知道当时想要的是什么感觉。32[PHRASE 短语]有时；间或 You use at times to say that something happens or is true on some occasions or at some moments.   [PHR with cl/group]The debate was highly emotional at times...辩论有时变得异常情绪化。At times she had an overwhelming desire to see him...她有时会特别想见他。He went on listening to her, at times impatient and at times fascinated.他继续听她讲，有时很不耐烦，有时深受吸引。33[PHRASE 短语]在…出生以前；在…有记忆前 If you say that something was before your time, you mean that it happened or existed before you were born or before you were able to know about it or remember it.   [usu v-link PHR]'You've never seen the Marilyn Monroe film?' — 'No, I think it was a bit before my time.'“你从来没看过玛丽莲·梦露演的电影？”——“是的，她拍电影时我还不记事呢。”34[PHRASE 短语]过早 If someone has reached a particular stage in life before their time, they have reached it at a younger age than is normal.   [PHR after v]The small print has forced me, years before my time, to buy spectacles...印刷文字过小迫使我早早就要买眼镜戴。There is nothing like a college town to make you feel old before your time.没有哪个地方能像大学城那样让你感到未老先衰。35[PHRASE 短语]早该发生；早该如此 If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.   [PHR with cl]  [emphasis]  [BRIT 英]The virus is getting more and more attention, and not before time...这种病毒正受到越来越多的关注，其实早该如此。Not before time, that is about to change.那一切总算要变了。36[PHRASE 短语]结束 If you call time on something, you end it.   [V inflects]

英语单词	time
英美音标	英 [taɪm] 美 [taɪm]
中文释义	n.时间；时代；时期；倍；次数；节拍 v.为…安排时间；计时；[体]在某一时刻击球 adj.时间的；定时的；分期（付款）的；定期的
英语例句	(1) Only time will tell if you are right. (2) Reading occupies most of my free time. (3) I referred to my watch for the exact time. (4) Closing time at this pub is eleven o' clock. (5) She is the most progressive writer of the time. (6) Sugar is under allocation during war time. (7) It was the happiest time in his wife . (8) The room is three times larger than that one. (9) He failed his driving test five times. (10) Three-fourths meter is waltz time. (11) The experienced car racer can always time his start to perfection. (12) To time a race is to see how long it takes. (13) This egg is hard---you didn't time it properly. (14) He timed that shot beautifully. (15) The earth is divided into 24 time zones. (16) The heating is on a time switch. (17) The police defected a time bomb in the building. (18) a time payment (19) a time loan (20) This time draft will fall due at the end of this year.
中文例句	(1) 只有时间才能证明你是否正确。 (2) 阅读占去了我大部分的闲暇时间。 (3) 我看了一下手表好知道准确的时间。 (4) 这酒馆的打烊时间是十一点。 (5) 她是那个时代最进步的作家。 (6) 战争时期糖是配给的。 (7) 那是他一生之中最幸福的时期。 (8) 这个房间比那个大三倍。 (9) 他考驾驶执照五次都没及格。 (10) 三/四拍是华尔滋曲的节拍。 (11) 那位经验丰富的车手总是能够完美地掌握出发的时间。 (12) 赛跑计时就是看看比赛要花多少时间。 (13) 这鸡蛋煮老了---你没掌握好火候. (14) 他这一击时间恰到好处。 (15) 地球被分为二十四个时区。 (16) 暖气靠定时开关自动供热。 (17) 警察在那幢大楼里查出一枚定时炸弹。 (18) 分期付款 (19) 定期贷款 (20) 这张期票年底到期。
vocabulary简明	Time is the movement from past to present to future. You can tell time with a clock, and it takes time to do anything.
vocabulary扩展	You can have a great time at a party, serve time in jail, or keep time while making music. You can time the runners in a race by keeping track of how long it takes them to finish. Time flies when you're having fun, but sometimes it feels like you have all the time in the world. It's hard to find the right time for some things — like proposing marriage. When you die, your time has run out.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]时间 Time is what we measure in minutes, hours, days, and years. ...a two-week period of time... 两周的时间 Time passed, and still Ma did not appear... 时间一点点过去，马先生仍然没有出现。 As time went on the visits got more and more regular... 随着时间的流逝，探访变得越来越频繁。 The social significance of religion has changed over time. 宗教的社会意义随着时间的变迁已经发生了变化。 2 [N-SING 单数名词]时刻；时候；钟点 You use time to ask or talk about a specific point in the day, which can be stated in hours and minutes and is shown on clocks. [wh/the N] 'What time is it?' — 'Eight o'clock.'... “几点钟了？”——“8点钟。” He asked me the time... 他问我几点了。 What time did he leave?... 他什么时候离开的？ I phoned my mother to ask what time she was coming home... 我打电话给母亲问她几点回家。 The time is now 19 minutes past the hour. 现在的时间是整点过19分。 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:opening time ；规定时间 The time when something happens is the point in the day when it happens or is supposed to happen. Departure times are 08:15 from St Quay, and 18:15 from St Helier. 从圣奎伊的出发时间是 8 点 15 分，从圣赫利尔的出发时间是 18 点 15 分。 4 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](某一时区的)时间 You use time to refer to the system of expressing time and counting hours that is used in a particular part of the world. [supp N] The tidal predictions are expressed in Greenwich Mean Time. Add one hour for British Summer Time... 潮汐预报用的是格林尼治标准时间。英国夏令时要在标准时基础上加一小时。 The incident happened just after ten o'clock local time. 事件发生在当地时间 10 点刚过。 5 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](用来做某事或某事发生的)时间 You use time to refer to the period that you spend doing something or when something has been happening. [also a N] Adam spent a lot of time in his grandfather's office... 亚当经常呆在他祖父的办公室里。 He wouldn't have the time or money to take care of me... 他既不会有时间也不会有钱来照顾我。 Listen to me, I haven't got much time... 听着，我没多少时间。 It's obvious that you need more time to think... 显然你需要更多时间来思考。 The route was blocked for some time... 道路被堵了一段时间。 For a long time I didn't tell anyone... 很久我都没有告诉任何人。 A short time later they sat down to eat... 过了一小会儿，他们坐下来吃东西。 Thank you very much for your time. 非常感谢你抽出了宝贵时间。 6 [N-SING 单数名词](相当长的)一段时间 If you say that something has been happening for a time, you mean that it has been happening for a fairly long period of time. [a N] He was also for a time the art critic of 'The Scotsman'... 有相当长的一段时间他为《苏格兰人》报撰写艺术评论。 He stayed for quite a time... 他呆了相当长的一段时间。 After a time they came to a pond. 过了好久，他们来到一个池塘。 7 [N-COUNT 可数名词](某事发生的)一段(或特定)时间 You use time to refer to a period of time or a point in time, when you are describing what is happening then. For example, if something happened at a particular time, that is when it happened. If it happens at all times, it always happens. [with supp] We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time... 我们那时在同一所学院，当时只招男生。 By this time he was thirty... 到那时他 30 岁了。 During the time I was married I tried to be the perfect wife... 在那段婚姻生活中，我努力要做个完美的妻子。 It was a time of terrible uncertainty... 那是一切都很不确定的一段时间。 Homes are more affordable than at any time in the past five years... 现在住宅比过去5年里的任何时候都要便宜。 It seemed like a good time to tell her... 那似乎是告诉她的好时机。 There were times when he would ring his bell at all hours of the day or night. 有段时间，他白天或晚上随时都可能摁铃。 8 [N-COUNT 可数名词]历史时期；时代 You use time or times to talk about a particular period in history or in your life. [with supp] They were hard times and his parents had been struggling to raise their family... 那是段艰苦时期，他父母一直艰辛地养家糊口。 We'll be alone together, quite like old times... 我们会单独在一起，就像过去那样。 We are in one of the most severe recessions in modern times... 我们正在经历现代最严重的一段经济衰退。 A 'Felucca' is the traditional Nile sailboat, unchanged since the time of the pharaohs. Felucca 是尼罗河地区的传统帆船，自法老时代起就没有变过。 9 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]当代；时代潮流 You can use the times to refer to the present time and to modern fashions, tastes, and developments. For example, if you say that someone keeps up with the times, you mean they are fashionable or aware of modern developments. If you say they are behind the times, you mean they are unfashionable or not aware of them. [the N] He is unafraid to move with the times... 他敢于与时俱进。 This approach is now seriously out of step with the times... 这种方法如今与时代潮流严重脱节。 Johnny has changed his image to fit the times. 约翰尼已经改变了他的形象以迎合时代潮流。 10 [N-COUNT 可数名词](经历的)一段时间，时期 When you describe the time that you had on a particular occasion or during a particular part of your life, you are describing the sort of experience that you had then. [adj N] Sarah and I had a great time while the kids were away... 孩子们不在的时候，我和萨拉度过了一段美好时光。 She's had a really tough time the last year and a half... 这一年半以来，她度过了一段非常艰难的时期。 You had an easy time of it at home... 你在家度过了一段轻松时光。 I try to remember all the good times I've had here. 我试着回忆在这里度过的所有美好时光。 11 [N-SING 单数名词]生命（期）；期限；时限 Your time is the amount of time that you have to live, or to do a particular thing. [poss N] Now Martin has begun to suffer the effects of AIDS, and he says his time is running out... 现在马丁开始遭受艾滋病的折磨，他说他的生命就要走到尽头。 Every administration has its time. And when your time is over, you leave... 每届政府都有其执政期限，任期届满时就得下台。 I doubt I would change anything if I had my time again. 如果能重新活过，我不确定自己是否愿意做出任何改变。 12 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](从事特定活动的)合适时候 If you say it is time for something, time to do something, or time you did something, you mean that this thing ought to happen or be done now. [oft N for n] Opinion polls indicated a feeling among the public that it was time for a change... 民意测验表明，公众认为到了改革的时候了。 It was time for him to go to work... 他该去上班了。 This was no time to make a speech... 这不是长篇大论的时候。 The time has come to put an end to the conflict... 结束冲突的时候到了。 It's time you went to school. 你该去上学了。 13 [N-COUNT 可数名词]次；回 When you talk about a time when something happens, you are referring to a specific occasion when it happens. [with supp] Every time she travels on the bus it's delayed by at least three hours... 每次她乘公车出行都至少耽搁3个小时。 The last time I saw her was about sixteen years ago... 我上次见她大约是 16 年前了。 House prices are rising for the first time since November... 房价自 11 月以来首次上涨。 Next time you go shopping, throw in a few extra fruit and vegetables... 下次你去买东西，多买点水果蔬菜。 Remember that time she picked up my daughter when I was ill? 还记得那次我生病，她替我接女儿吗？ 14 [N-COUNT 可数名词]次 You use time after numbers to say how often something happens. [usu num/ord N] It was her job to make tea three times a day... 她的差事就是每天沏3次茶。 How many times has your mother told you never to talk to strangers?... 你母亲告诉你多少次了，绝不能和陌生人谈话？ The Masters golf tournament was won a second time by the American Ben Hogan. 美国的本·霍根再次夺得高尔夫大师锦标赛冠军。 Usage Note : You do not say 'one time a year' or 'two times a year'； you say once a year or twice a year. You also do not say 'two times as much'； you say twice as much. “一年一次”或“一年两次”不能说 one time a year 或 two times a year，而要说 once a year 或 twice a year。“两倍那么多”也不能说 two times as much，而要说 twice as much。 15 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]倍 You use times after numbers when comparing one thing to another and saying, for example, how much bigger, smaller, better, or worse it is. [num N compar] Its profits are rising four times faster than the average company... 它的利润增长速度比一般公司快4倍。 Young people were several times more likely to be out of work than older members of the workforce... 劳动人口中，年轻人失业的可能性是年长者的好几倍。 He polled four times as many votes as his rival. 他得到的选票数量是竞选对手的4倍。 ...an area five times the size of Britain. 面积为英国领土5倍大的区域 16 [CONJ-COORD 连词]乘以 You use times in arithmetic to link numbers or amounts that are multiplied together to reach a total. Four times six is 24. 4 乘以 6 等于 24。 17 [N-COUNT 可数名词](赛跑等)所用时间，成绩 Someone's time in a race is the amount of time it takes them to finish the race. [with supp] He was over a second faster than his previous best time... 他比自己以前的最好成绩快了 1 秒多。 She recorded a time of two minutes 8.74 seconds. 她以两分 8 秒 74 的成绩创了纪录。 18 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]拍子；节拍 The time of a piece of music is the number of beats that the piece has in each bar. [usu supp N] A reel is in four-four time, and a jig is in six-eight time. 里尔舞曲是四四拍，吉格舞曲是六八拍。 19 [VERB 动词]给…确定时间；为…安排时间 If you time something for a particular time, you plan or decide to do it or cause it to happen at this time. [V n to-inf] [V n for n] [V n adv] [V-ed] [Also V n] He timed the election to coincide with new measures to boost the economy... 他把选举安排在振兴经济的新政策出台时。 We had timed our visit for March 7... 我们把访问时间确定在3月7日。 He had timed his intervention well... 他选择介入的时机恰到好处。 Operation Amazon is timed to coincide with the start of the dry season. 拯救亚马孙河的行动安排在了旱季来临之际。 20 [VERB 动词]测定…所花时间 If you time an action or activity, you measure how long someone takes to do it or how long it lasts. [V n] He timed each performance with a stop-watch. 他用秒表测定每组动作所花的时间。 21 See also:timing ； 22 [PHRASE 短语]该是…的时候了；早该…了 If you say it is about time that something was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner. [it v-link PHR that] [emphasis] It's about time a few movie makers with original ideas were given a chance... 该给为数不多的几个有创见的电影制作者一个机会了。 'Here she is.' — 'About time too.' “她来了。”——“也早该来了。” 23 [PHRASE 短语]提前；预先 If you do something ahead of time, you do it before a particular event or before you need to, in order to be well prepared. [PHR after v] Find out ahead of time what regulations apply to your situation. 提前搞清楚什么规章适用于你的情况。 24 [PHRASE 短语](思想)先进，领先于时代 If someone is ahead of their time or before their time, they have new ideas a long time before other people start to think in the same way. [v-link PHR] My mother was ahead of her time. She surrounded me with culture and art. 我母亲思想前卫，给予了我文化和艺术的熏陶。 His only fundamental mistake, he insists, is that he was 20 years before his time. 他坚持认为，他仅有的根本性错误是他比时代超前了20年。 25 [PHRASE 短语]一直；始终 If something happens or is done all the time, it happens or is done continually. [PHR after v] We can't be together all the time... 我们不能始终在一起。 I get the two of them mixed up all the time, they're so similar. 我一直把他们俩弄混，他俩太像了。 26 [PHRASE 短语]一次；每次 You say at a time after an amount to say how many things or how much of something is involved in one action, place, or group. [amount PHR] Beat in the eggs, one at a time... 打入鸡蛋，一次一个。 She ran for the staircase and down the steps, taking them two at a time... 她跑向楼梯，一步两级地奔下台阶。 Do you sometimes find that you are doing very little physical exercise for several weeks at a time? 你有时会不会发现自己一连几个星期都没怎么锻炼过？ 27 [PHRASE 短语]随时；任何时候 If something could happen at any time, it is possible that it will happen very soon, though nobody can predict exactly when. [PHR with cl] Conditions are still very tense and the fighting could escalate at any time. 局势仍然非常紧张，战斗随时可能升级。 28 [PHRASE 短语]即使在最好的情况下 You say at the best of times when you are making a negative or critical comment to emphasize that it is true even when the circumstances are as favourable as possible. [PHR with cl] [emphasis] A trade war would be bad at the best of times, but in the current economic climate, it would be a disaster. 即使在情况最好的时候贸易战都是有害无利的，而在当前这种经济形势下只会是一场灾难。 29 [PHRASE 短语]一度；曾经 If you say that something was the case at one time, you mean that it was the case during a particular period in the past. [PHR with cl] At one time 400 men, women and children lived in the village. 曾经有 400 个男人、女人和孩子居住在村子里。 ...enormous glaciers, which at one time covered vast areas of the northern hemisphere. 一度覆盖了北半球辽阔区域的巨大冰川 30 [PHRASE 短语]同时 If two or more things exist, happen, or are true at the same time, they exist, happen, or are true together although they seem to contradict each other. [PHR with cl] I was afraid of her, but at the same time I really liked her... 我害怕她，但同时也确实喜欢她。 She was somehow able to look sad and cheerful at the same time. 她能够做出又悲又喜的神情。 31 [PHRASE 短语]然而；不过 At the same time is used to introduce a statement that slightly changes or contradicts the previous statement. [PHR with cl] I don't think I set out to come up with a different sound for each album. At the same time, I do have a sense of what is right for the moment. 我不觉得我一开始就特意为每张专辑设定了不同的曲风。然而，我确实知道当时想要的是什么感觉。 32 [PHRASE 短语]有时；间或 You use at times to say that something happens or is true on some occasions or at some moments. [PHR with cl/group] The debate was highly emotional at times... 辩论有时变得异常情绪化。 At times she had an overwhelming desire to see him... 她有时会特别想见他。 He went on listening to her, at times impatient and at times fascinated. 他继续听她讲，有时很不耐烦，有时深受吸引。 33 [PHRASE 短语]在…出生以前；在…有记忆前 If you say that something was before your time, you mean that it happened or existed before you were born or before you were able to know about it or remember it. [usu v-link PHR] 'You've never seen the Marilyn Monroe film?' — 'No, I think it was a bit before my time.' “你从来没看过玛丽莲·梦露演的电影？”——“是的，她拍电影时我还不记事呢。” 34 [PHRASE 短语]过早 If someone has reached a particular stage in life before their time, they have reached it at a younger age than is normal. [PHR after v] The small print has forced me, years before my time, to buy spectacles... 印刷文字过小迫使我早早就要买眼镜戴。 There is nothing like a college town to make you feel old before your time. 没有哪个地方能像大学城那样让你感到未老先衰。 35 [PHRASE 短语]早该发生；早该如此 If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner. [PHR with cl] [emphasis] [BRIT 英] The virus is getting more and more attention, and not before time... 这种病毒正受到越来越多的关注，其实早该如此。 Not before time, that is about to change. 那一切总算要变了。 36 [PHRASE 短语]结束 If you call time on something, you end it. [V inflects]

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