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N-UNCOUNT
时间
Time is what we measure in minutes, hours, days, and years.
例句
...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。
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N-SING
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.
例句
'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。
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N-COUNT
规定时间
The time when something happens is the point in the day when it happens or is supposed to happen.
例句
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。
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N-UNCOUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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N-UNCOUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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N-SING
(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.
例句
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。
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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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N-COUNT
历史时期;时代
You use time or times to talk about a particular period in history or in your life.
例句
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。
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N-PLURAL
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.
例句
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。
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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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N-SING
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.
例句
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。
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N-UNCOUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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N-COUNT
次;回
When you talk about a time when something happens, you are referring to a specific occasion when it happens.
例句
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。
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N-COUNT
次
You use time after numbers to say how often something happens.
例句
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？
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N-PLURAL
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.
例句
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。
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CONJ-COORD
乘以
You use times in arithmetic to link numbers or amounts that are multiplied together to reach a total.
例句
Four times six is 24.
4 乘以 6 等于 24。
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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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N-UNCOUNT
拍子;节拍
The time of a piece of music is the number of beats that the piece has in each bar.
例句
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。
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VERB
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.
例句
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。
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VERB
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.
例句
He timed each performance with a stop-watch.
他用秒表测定每组动作所花的时间。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。”
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
(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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
一直;始终
If something happens or is done all the time, it happens or is done continually.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
然而;不过
At the same time is used to introduce a statement that slightly changes or contradicts the previous statement.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
有时;间或
You use at times to say that something happens or is true on some occasions or at some moments.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
'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。”
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
结束
If you call time on something, you end it.
例句
Scott Hastings has called time on his international career by cutting short his contract.
斯科特·黑斯廷斯中止合同，结束了他的国际比赛生涯。
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PHRASE
坐牢;服刑
Someone who is doing time is in prison.
例句
He is serving 11 years for robbery, and did time for a similar offence before that.
他因犯抢劫罪正在服11年的刑期，此前他也曾因类似罪行蹲过监狱。
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PHRASE
永远
If you say that something will be the case for all time, you mean that it will always be the case.
例句
The desperate condition of the world is that madness has always been here, and that it will remain so for all time.
这个世界令人绝望的是，疯狂之事一直存在，而且将永远存在下去。
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PHRASE
目前;暂时
If something is the case or will happen for the time being, it is the case or will happen now, but only until something else becomes possible or happens.
例句
For the time being, however, immunotherapy is still in its experimental stages...
但免疫疗法目前仍处于实验阶段。
The situation is calm for the time being.
局势暂时稳定。
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PHRASE
不时地;间或;偶尔
If you do something from time to time, you do it occasionally but not regularly.
例句
Her daughters visited him from time to time when he was ill.
他生病的时候她的女儿们时常去探望他。
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PHRASE
常常;几乎总是
If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
例句
Half the time, I don't have the slightest idea what he's talking about.
我经常一点儿都听不懂他在说什么。
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PHRASE
不喜欢/喜欢;不赞成/赞成
If you say that you have no time for a person or thing, you mean you do not like them or approve of them, and if you say that you have a lot of time for a person or thing, you mean you like them or approve of them very much.
例句
When I think of what he's done to my mother and me, I've just got no time for him...
想到他对母亲和我所做的一切，我就很讨厌他。
I have got a lot of time for people who are prepared to put the welfare of their party above their own vanity.
我很钦佩那些不计个人名利，以政党的利益为重的人。
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PHRASE
(早)该…了;是时候…了
If you say that it is high time that something happened or 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.
例句
It is high time the Government displayed a more humanitarian approach towards victims of the recession...
政府早该对受到经济衰退影响的人们采取更加人性化的救助措施。
It is high time to consider the problem on a global scale.
早该从全球视角考虑问题了。
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PHRASE
及时;不迟
If you are in time for a particular event, you are not too late for it.
例句
I arrived just in time for my flight to London...
我及时赶上了飞往伦敦的航班。
She set the alarm so she'd wake up in time to give her two sons their medication.
她定了闹钟，以便及时醒来给两个儿子服药。
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PHRASE
最终;迟早
If you say that something will happen in time or given time, you mean that it will happen eventually, when a lot of time has passed.
例句
He would sort out his own problems, in time...
他早晚会解决自己的问题。
Tina believed that, given time, her business would become profitable.
蒂娜相信假以时日，她的生意一定会盈利。
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PHRASE
合拍/不合拍
If you are playing, singing, or dancing in time with a piece of music, you are following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. If you are out of time with it, you are not following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly.
例句
Her body swayed in time with the music...
她的身体随着音乐节拍摆动。
We were standing onstage playing completely out of time.
我们站在舞台上，演奏得完全不合节拍。
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PHRASE
在…之后
If you say that something will happen, for example, in a week's time or in two years' time, you mean that it will happen a week from now or two years from now.
例句
Presidential elections are due to be held in ten days' time...
总统竞选将在10天后如期举行。
In a year's time we will all be laughing about it.
一年以后我们都会对此一笑置之。
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PHRASE
提早，提前(到达)
If you arrive somewhere in good time, you arrive early so that there is time to spare before a particular event.
例句
If we're out, we always make sure we're home in good time for the programme.
如果外出，我们总是确保在节目开始之前赶回家。
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PHRASE
慢慢来;别急;来得及
If you tell someone that something will happen in good time or all in good time, you are telling them to be patient because it will happen eventually.
例句
There will be many advanced exercises that you won't be able to do at first. You will get to them in good time...
有许多难度较大的动作你起初不会做，但慢慢就会了。
'I can't wait to be grown up.' — 'All in good time.'
“我等不及要长大了。”——“别急，你总会长大的。”
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PHRASE
立刻;马上
If something happens in no time or in next to no time, it happens almost immediately or very quickly.
例句
He's going to be just fine. At his age he'll heal in no time...
他会好起来的。以他的年纪，他很快就会痊愈。
He expects to be out of prison in next to no time.
他期盼着立即出狱。
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PHRASE
从容地;不慌不忙地
If you do something in your own time, you do it at the speed that you choose, rather than allowing anyone to hurry you.
例句
Now, in your own time, tell me what happened.
现在慢慢告诉我发生了什么事。
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PHRASE
在业余时间;在空闲时间
If you do something such as work in your own time in British English, or on your own time in American English, you do it in your free time rather than, for example, at work or school.
例句
If I choose to work on other projects in my own time, then I say that is my business.
如果我选择在业余时间做其他项目，我认为那是我自己的事情。
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PHRASE
和着拍子;按节拍
If you keep time when playing or singing music, you follow or play the beat, without going too fast or too slowly.
例句
As he sang he kept time on a small drum.
他边唱边和着节拍敲一个小鼓。
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PHRASE
(钟表)走得准
When you talk about how well a watch or clock keeps time, you are talking about how accurately it measures time.
例句
Some pulsars keep time better than the earth's most accurate clocks.
某些脉冲星发送脉冲比地球上最精确的时钟都准时。
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PHRASE
腾出时间;留出时间
If you make time for a particular activity or person, you arrange to have some free time so that you can do the activity or spend time with the person.
例句
Before leaving the city, be sure to make time for a shopping trip...
离开城市之前，一定要留出时间去买些东西。
She had made time for me in the midst of her busy schedule...
她在百忙中为我腾出了时间。
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PHRASE
(旅途)比预期的快
If you say that you made good time on a journey, you mean it did not take you very long compared to the length of time you expected it to take.
例句
They had left early in the morning, on quiet roads, and made good time.
他们一大早出发，一路上人车稀少，走得比预期快多了。
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PHRASE
弥补过去损失的时间
If someone is making up for lost time, they are doing something actively and with enthusiasm because they have not had the opportunity to do it before or when they were younger.
例句
Five years older than the majority of officers of his same rank, he was determined to make up for lost time.
他比同一级别的大多数军官年长 5 岁，因此他决心积极努力来弥补过去损失的时间。
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PHRASE
消磨时光;等待时机
If you are marking time, you are doing something that is not particularly useful or interesting while you wait for something more important or interesting to happen.
例句
He's really just marking time until he's old enough to leave.
他其实只是在消磨时光，等年龄一到就退休。
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PHRASE
十之八九;几乎总是
If you say that something happens or is the case nine times out of ten or ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you mean that it happens on nearly every occasion or is almost always the case.
例句
When they want something, nine times out of ten they get it...
他们想要什么，十之八九都会得到。
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred when parents say to their children 'I know how you feel', they are lying.
当父母对孩子们说“我知道你的感受”时，他们十有八九在撒谎。
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PHRASE
有史以来最…的;前所未有的;空前的
If you say that someone or something is, for example, the best writer of all time, or the most successful film of all time, you mean that they are the best or most successful that there has ever been.
例句
'Monopoly' is one of the best-selling games of all time...
“大富翁”是有史以来最畅销的游戏之一。
This is my favourite song of all time.
这是我有史以来最喜爱的一首歌。
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PHRASE
准时;按时
If you are on time, you are not late.
例句
Don't worry, she'll be on time...
别急，她会准时到的。
Their planes usually arrive on time.
他们的飞机通常都会准时抵达。
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PHRASE
迟早的事;只是时间问题
If you say that it is only a matter of time or only a question of time before something happens, you mean that it cannot be avoided and will definitely happen at some future date.
例句
It now seems only a matter of time before they resign...
现在看来，他们辞职是早晚的事。
The doctors are confident he'll make a full recovery. It's just a question of time.
医生们确信他会完全康复。这只是个时间问题。
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PHRASE
当今;目前
When you refer to our time or our times you are referring to the present period in the history of the world.
例句
It would be wrong to say that the Church doesn't enter the great moral debates of our time.
要说教会问题不是当代社会道德争论的一大议题，那就错了。
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PHRASE
消遣;打发时间
If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it.
例句
Without particular interest and just to pass the time, I read a story...
我读了一篇故事，并非有什么特别的兴趣，仅仅为了消遣。
During a lunch break, he and the buyer passed the time with some chitchat.
午饭休息时间，他与顾客谈天闲聊以消磨时间。
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PHRASE
与…寒暄;与…打招呼
If you pass the time of day with someone, you have a short friendly conversation with them.
例句
One or two people went up and passed the time of day with her...
一两个人走过去和她打了招呼。
They can't even say 'good morning' or pass the time of day.
他们甚至不会说“早上好”或打声招呼。
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PHRASE
(为争取时间)故意拖延
If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
例句
The president's decision is being seen as an attempt to play for time.
总统的决定被视为试图争取时间而故意拖延。
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需要时间;耗时
If you say that something will take time, you mean that it will take a long time.
例句
Change will come, but it will take time...
会有变化的，但这需要时间。
It takes time to build up intimacy.
建立亲密关系是需要时间的。
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PHRASE
不着急;不慌忙;慢慢来
If you take your time doing something, you do it quite slowly and do not hurry.
例句
'Take your time,' Cross told him. 'I'm in no hurry.'
“慢慢来，”克罗斯对他说，“我一点都不急。”
He took his time answering, knowing that he must select his words with great care.
他意识到自己必须言辞谨慎，于是不慌不忙地回答着问题。
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PHRASE
认时间;认钟表
If a child can tell the time, they are able to find out what the time is by looking at a clock or watch.
例句
My four-year-old daughter cannot quite tell the time.
我4岁大的女儿还不大会看表。
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PHRASE
反复地;屡次;一再
If something happens time after time, it happens in a similar way on many occasions.
例句
Burns had escaped from jail time after time...
伯恩斯屡次越狱。
Time after time, I hear these stories of missing children on the news.
我不断从新闻节目中听到这些关于孩子失踪的报道。
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PHRASE
时光飞逝
If you say that time flies, you mean that it seems to pass very quickly.
例句
Time flies when you're having fun.
开心的时光总是飞逝而去。
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PHRASE
过得愉快;玩得高兴
If you have the time of your life, you enjoy yourself very much indeed.
例句
We're taking our little grandchild away with us. We'll make sure he has the time of his life...
我们会把小孙子带走。我们一定会让他过得开心。
For some it was awful, for others, particularly the young, it was the time of their lives.
对某些人来说，那糟透了;而对其他人，特别是年轻人来说，那是他们无比开心的日子。
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PHRASE
须赶快;须尽快
If you say there is no time to lose or no time to be lost, you mean you must hurry as fast as you can to do something.
例句
He rushed home, realising there was no time to lose.
他意识到时间紧迫，于是急速赶回家。
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PHRASE
时间会验证
If you say that time will tell whether something is true or correct, you mean that it will not be known until some time in the future whether it is true or correct.
例句
Only time will tell whether Broughton's optimism is justified...
只有时间会验证布劳顿的乐观是否合理。
I can't see any problems, but time will tell.
我发现不了任何问题，但时间会验证一切。
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PHRASE
立即;马上
If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
例句
Tom wasted no time in telling me why he had come.
汤姆马上告诉了我他来的原因。