有人说,英语最简单的单词莫过于数字,以至于可能找一位耕田的老大爷都知道“one, two, three”什么意思。 但是,为什么当这个数字应用在日期上时,却总有人说错呢? 比如今天的日期:2016年1月25日,该怎么用英语表达? 首先,我们要知道英语里“年月日”顺序和汉语不一样的:
然后,我们要知道日期的说法不是数字,而是“序数”,也就是“第几天”的概念:
接着是月,一月到十二月不是数字,而是12个特殊称呼:
最后是年,21世纪的年份通常有2种念法:
25 Jan, 2016(英式书写) the twenty-fifth of January, twenty sixteen(英式读法) Jan 25, 2016(美式书写) January (the) twenty-fifth, twenty sixteen(美式读法) 看看这些例句巩固下吧: My birthday’s on the first of March. June the 21st is the day that I met my boyfriend. January the 10th – that’s when I married him. 如果你的印象比较模糊,无法说出确切日期时,可以说: I can’t remember the exact date, but I think it was around the 5th or 6th of May. My memory’s a bit hazy, but it was definitely in December. 100 = a grand 12= a dozen 10 years = a decade 4 = quadruplets, a quartet 2 = a duo, a duet, a couple, a pair, a twin 100 = a century 3 = a trio, a triplet, a trilogy 1 = a solo, single, solitary 6 = half a dozen 学过上面这些内容,你在评论里回答这些问题试试吧: 1. What’s the date today? 2. How do you say ten years? 3. How about a hundred years?
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