每课一句:新概念英语第1册第95课
【往期回顾】
接下来,我们就来看看第95课的“每课一句”。
一、课文原文
Lesson 95 Tickets, please.
Two return tickets to London please. What time will the next train leave?
At nineteen minutes past eight.
Which platform?
Platform Two. Over the bridge.
What time will the next train leave?
At eight nineteen.
We’ve got plenty of time.
It’s only three minutes to eight.
Let’s go and have a drink. There’s a bar next door to the station.
We had better go back to the station now, Ken.
Tickets, please.
We want to catch the eight nineteen to London.
You’ve just missed it!
What! It’s only eight fifteen.
I’m sorry, sir. That clock’s ten minutes slow.
When’s the next train?
In five hours’ time!
——选自《新概念英语》第一册,外语教学与研究出版社,1997年10月第1版
二、每课一句
In five hours' time!
本课继续学习一般将来时的用法,只是本课侧重学习的是该时态的标志词“in+一段时间+'s+time”的用法,它主要分为两大类。
一、当“一段时间”为单数时
此时,其用法为“in+一段时间+'s+time”。如:
He will come back in an hour's time.
二、当“一段时间”为复数时
此时,其用法为“in+一段时间+'+time”。如:
He will come back in three hours' time.
【注意】
要注意“in+一段时间”与“in+一段时间+'s+time”的区别。
1、in+一段时间
主要表示“在多长时间内;花了多长时间”,相当于“within+一段时间”。如:
He ran the marathon in six hours and 20 minutes.
他花了6小时20分钟跑完马拉松。
2、in+一段时间+'s+time
主要表示“多长时间之后”,相当于“after+一段时间”。如:
In five minutes time we shall be stopping at the Canterbury restaurant for lunch.
五分钟后我们即将在坎特博利餐厅停下并进午餐。
三、更多拓展
That clock's ten minutes slow.
要表示钟表快了或者慢了多长时间的话,其用法为:
(一)快了多长时间
时间段+fast,或者,时间段+ahead of time,如:
你的手表快了十分钟,而你还是迟到了。
Your watch is ten minutes ahead of time and youre still late.
也可以说“gain+时间段”,如:
My watch has gained ten minutes since yesterday.
从昨天算起,我的表已经快了十分钟。
(二)慢了多长时间
时间段+slow,如:
Put your watch forward, you're five minutes slow.
把你的表拨快一些,你慢了五分钟。
也可以说“时间段+behind time”,如:
He was late for school because the bus was ten minutes behind time.
他上学迟到了,是因为公共汽车迟到了十分钟。