时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   时差


  说起“时差”大家或许立马会想到:
  Time difference
  但它只能用来描述地理上的时间差异:
  What's the time difference between New York and Shanghai? 纽约和上海时差多少?
  谈到具体的时差,中文里会说快、慢了多久,但英文里用的是:
  Ahead of: 在…之前
  Behind: 在…之后
  Shanghai is 12 hours ahead of New York. 上海比纽约快12个小时。
  New York is 12 hours behind Shanghai. 纽约比上海慢12个小时。
  时区
  为了某一地区的人们使用统一的时间,人们划分了不同的时区:
  Time zones: 时区
  这是一个固定说法,不能说成time areas或time places。
  跨经度很大的国家通常会有好几个时区:
  6 time zones in America: 美国有6个时区
  美国大陆地区:
  EST = Eastern Standard Time: 东部标准时间
  PST = Pacific Standard Time: 太平洋标准时间
  MST = Mountain Standard Time: 山区标准时间
  CST = Central Daylight Time: 中部标准时间
  3月初到11月初,北美中部标准时间会调整使用夏令时CDT = Central Daylight Time,但即便如此人们还是都习惯说CST。
  美国大陆以外的地区:
  HAST = Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time: 夏威夷-阿留申时区
  AKST = Alaska Standard Time: 阿拉斯加标准时间
  如果坐飞机到了另一个时区,一定能听到飞机广播中说到这个词:
  Local time: 当地时间
  The local time in New York is 16:00. 纽约当地时间是16:00。
  What's the local time now? 现在的当地时间是几点?
  标准时间
  全世界的时间标准,也是国际上最常见的时区缩写:
  GMT = Greenwich Mean Time: 格林威治时间
  注意Greenwich的读音:/?ɡren?t? /
  中国是GMT+8,统一使用东八区作为标准时间:
  BST = Beijing Standard Time
  很多国家都会在天亮较早的夏季将时间调快:
  Daylight savings 1 time: 夏令时,夏时制
  Turn the clocks forward/back: 将时钟调快/调回
  倒时差
  如果要说时差很厉害,需要倒时差,一定要用到的表达:
  Jet lag: 时差反应
  怎么用:
  I feel so jet-lagged.
  I've got crazy jet-lag.
  The jet lag is killing 2.
  通常说到“jet lag”都是指一种不好的反应,需要去克服它:
  To get over jet lag. 倒时差
  很多人会服用一些帮助入睡的补充剂来帮助他们倒时差:
  Melatonin: /mel.??to?.n?n/ 褪黑素
  Sleep aid supplement: 辅助睡眠的补充剂

n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
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ABMI
accession book
achaar
acted upon
actual receipt
advocacy administration
albumin fibre
aleurina nigrodisca
angle fishplates
Bahir Dar
bar absolute
beefinesses
benesov nad cernou
business critical application
cable drilling tools
Carron, R.
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castle-builder
catalytical discoloring spectrophotometry
cell mount
circle point curve
convergence paralysis
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credit center
creeping form
desmodium canadense dc.
dialysability
double-berthed cabin
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echoscope
eight-hour work system
encouraging a high level of consumption
endoglucanase
EPBX (electronic private branch exchange)
evaporative rate
external dynamics
fan apex
filariasis of scrotum
flat grate producer
focyll
fogyish
frequency modulation distortion
gallants
Gallup, George Horace
general aviation aircraft
go along with sb.
goodlet
gromwell
Harlan Stone
homogeneity of variance
hydrazinium sulfate
ice cupboards
inline space
inquere
jordana
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lime-constant association
logical partition
mellgren
metallographical technology
monkeywrench
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natural immersion
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non probability sampling
non-contact fuze
non-specific fluorescence
nonappearance
octacosanol
outer piston
parasitic feedback
petrakov
petray
phosphoric manure
photoluminescent personal dosimeter
pitched paper
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PPFF (priority program flip-flop)
prolongation of delay
recracking
RS-423
sandliver
saturated temperature
silyl radical
stromboid
subministration
synencephalus
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terror mt.
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