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9、以24小时为时制的表示法。
08:00 eight o'clock in the morning或eight o'clock a.m.
12:00 twelve o'clock或midday或noon
14:15 fourteen fifteen或two fifteen p.m.
24:00 twelve o'clock at night或midnight
10、单位的表达法。
2×3 feet two feet by three feet
2×3×6 inches two inches by three inches by six inches。
This parcel weighs 3 pounds 5 ounces.
This parcel is 3 pounds 5 ounces in weight.
这件包裹重
I bought a 4 feet by 5 feet rug.
我购买了一块长五英呎宽四英呎的地毯。
His height is
=He is
The size of the box is six feet by four by three and two-thirds.
这个箱子的大小是长
5p a kilo=5便士一公斤;£
11、一些数学表达式的读法,其中一些常见的符号。
"+" 读做plus或and; "-" 读做minus或from; "×" 读做times或multiplied by;
"÷" 读做divided by; = equals/is;3²three squared;5³five cubed;
610 six to the power of ten;√ square root of
5+8=13 Five plus eight is thirteen. 五加八等于十三。
15-6=9 Fifteen minus six is nine. 十五减六等于九。
4×5=20 Four times five is twenty. /Four multiplied by five is twenty./
Four fives are twenty.
8÷2 → 4 Eight divided by two is four. /Two in eight goes four. 八除以二等于四。
12、表达“age(年龄)”
★表示一个人的年龄只用数字
Sue is ten and Tom is six.
She left home at sixteen.
★…岁的男子/女子/男孩/姑娘等
They've got a girl of three and a boy of five.
a young woman of nineteen.
★书写、描述或强调某人的年龄用…years old。
She was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession.
He is described as white,
You're forty years old—stop behaving like a teenager!
★…years old亦可用以指事物
The monument is 120 years old.
★亦可用a..year-old/month-old/week-old等表示。
Youth training is available to all sixteen year-olds.
a ten week-old baby.
a remarkable 1000 year-old tomb.
★正式用语或书面语用..years of age。
Not applicable to persons under eighteen years of age.
★表示某一年龄段的人用the..age group。
He took first prize in the 10-16 age group.
★表示一个人的大致年龄
13
21
31
34
37
★特指某事情可用at/by/before,etc.the age of...
Most smokers start smoking cigarettes before the age of sixteen.
13、电话号码、房间号、帐号、汽车牌号等按编号的顺序一个一个地读出,遇到 "o" 时读 oh,相连的两个相同的基数词可读做 double。
My office phone number is 268-8064 extension 321.
我的办公室电话是二六八八零六四分机三二一.
268-8064 extension 321读做two six eight eight O six four extension three two one.
My account number is 38800685.我的帐号是三八八零零六八五。
38800685 读做three eight eight zero zero six eight five or three double eight double oh six eight five
注意:
1)、编号既可用序数词,也可以用基数词。如:
the tenth lesson=Lesson Ten第十课
the fiftieth page=page 50第五十页
(2)、有的编号习惯上常用基数词。如:
Room 321(读做three two one)321房间
Bus NO.15(读做bus number fifteen)15路公共汽车
Tel.No.448751(读做telephone number double four eight seven five one)
14、货币的读法。
1)、In Britain
100 pence/p=1 British pound(£1)
It costs 90p/90 pence treturn on the bus.
★表示单个硬币。
a twenty pence piece/a twenty p piece.
★表示镑和便士通常只说数字。
It costs five ninety nine.(£5.99)
★在非正式英国英语
£
2)、In the US
★
$1.00 one dollar a dollar bill一元纸币;
$18.29读做eighteen dollars twenty-nine cents或eighteen twenty-nine
$15 读做 fifteen dollars (even)表示十五美元(整)。
★在非正式美国英语中美元叫bucks.
This shirt cost fifty bucks.
3)其他
C$268 读做 two hundred and sixty-eight Canadian dollars表示二百六十八加拿大元。
JP¥10,000 读做 ten thousand Japanese Yen 表示一万日元。
15、帝王第~世的读法。
William I读做William the First(威廉一世)
Elizabeth II读做Elizabeth the Second伊利莎白二世)
16、温度的的读法
★摄氏温标(℃)在英国为正式场合用语,在美国用于科技方面。
a high of thirty-five degredds Celsius.
The normal temperature of the human body is
The temperature dropped to
★华氏温标(℉)在美国用于科技以外的其他各个方面,在英国仍普遍使用。
Degree Fahrenheit/Centigrade/Celsius(华氏/摄氏度)常常省略不用。
Temperatures soalrd to over a hundred.(
She’s ill in bed with a temperature of a hundred and two.(
17、其他表达法。
World War II 读做 world war two 或 the second world war(第二次世界大战)
No.1 读做 number one(第一)
Lesson III 读做 lesson three(第三课)
Section I 读做 section one(第一节)
P.10 读做 page ten(第十页)
18、数字“
Zero:用于精确的科学、医学和经济方面,亦用以表示温度。
It was ten degrees below zero last night.
Zero inflation/growth/profit.
Nought:在英国英语中用以表示数字、年龄等:
A million is written with six noughts.
The car goes from nought to sixty in ten second.
clothes for children aged nought to six.
“o”:用以表示银行帐号、电话号码等。
Nil:用以表示团体比赛(如足球赛)的比分率;或用以表示完全没有。
The final score was one nil.(1-0)
The doctors rated her chance as nil.