time是什么意思_time怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something;"take time to smell the roses"
"I didn"t have time to finish"
"it took more than half my time"

an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities);"he waited a long time"
"the time of year for planting"
"he was a great actor in his time"

a suitable moment;"it is time to go"

the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

a person"s experience on a particular occasion;"he had a time holding back the tears"
"they had a good time together"

a reading of a point in time as given by a clock;"do you know what time it is?"
"the time is 10 o"clock"

the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;"he served a prison term of 15 months"
"his sentence was 5 to 10 years"
"he is doing time in the county jail"

Verb:

measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;"he clocked the runners"

assign a time for an activity or event;"The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"

set the speed, duration, or execution of;"we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"

regulate or set the time of;"time the clock"

adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time;"The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"

中英词源

time 时间，时刻，时代，节拍，拍子，次，回

来自古英语 tima,一段时间，限时，来自 Proto-Germanic*timon,一段时间，来自 PIE*di-mon, 来自*da,分开，切分，词源同 tide,democracy,*mon,名词后缀，即-men,-ment.后引申诸相关词义，并由一段时间引申词义次，回。

time: time: [OE] Time originally denoted ‘delimited section of existence, period’. Its ultimate source is the Indo-European base *dī- ‘cut up, divide’. This passed into prehistoric Germanic as *tī- (source also of English tide), and addition of the suffix *-mon- produced *tīmon – whence English time and Swedish timme ‘hour’. The application of the word to the more generalized, abstract notion of ‘continuous duration’ dates from the 14th century.
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time (n.): Old English tima "limited space of time," from Proto-Germanic *timon- "time" (cognates: Old Norse timi "time, proper time," Swedish timme "an hour"), from PIE *di-mon-, suffixed form of root *da- "cut up, divide" (see tide (n.)).

Abstract sense of "time as an indefinite continuous duration" is recorded from late 14c. Personified since at least 1509 as an aged bald man (but with a forelock) carrying a scythe and an hour-glass. In English, a single word encompasses time as "extent" and "point" (French temps/fois, German zeit/mal) as well as "hour" (as in "what time is it?" compare French heure, German Uhr). Extended senses such as "occasion," "the right time," "leisure," or times (v.) "multiplied by" developed in Old and Middle English, probably as a natural outgrowth of such phrases as "He commends her a hundred times to God" (Old French La comande a Deu cent foiz).
to have a good time ( = a time of enjoyment) was common in Eng. from c 1520 to c 1688; it was app. retained in America, whence readopted in Britain in 19th c. [OED]
Time of day (now mainly preserved in negation, i.e. what someone won"t give you if he doesn"t like you) was a popular 17c. salutation (as in "Good time of day vnto your Royall Grace," "Richard III," I.iii.18), hence to give (one) the time of day "greet socially" (1590s); earlier was give good day (mid-14c.). The times "the current age" is from 1590s. Behind the times "old-fashioned" is recorded from 1831. Times as the name of a newspaper dates from 1788.

Time warp first attested 1954; time-traveling in the science fiction sense first recorded 1895 in H.G. Wells" "The Time Machine." Time capsule first recorded 1938, in reference to the one "deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World"s fair."
Jones [archaeologist of A.D. 5139] potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a "Time Capsule." Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic tribal ceremony called a "publicity gag" of which he has already found many examples. ["Princeton Alumni Weekly," April 14, 1939]
To do time "serve a prison sentence" is from 1865. Time frame is attested by 1964; time-limit is from 1880. About time, ironically for "long past due time," is recorded from 1920.
time (v.): Old English getimian "to happen, befall," from time (n.). Meaning "to appoint a time" (of an action, etc.) is attested from c. 1300; sense of "to measure or record the time of" (a race, event, etc.) is first attested 1660s. Related: Timed; timing.

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词态变化

复数 times;
第三人称单数 times;
过去式 timed;
现在分词 timing;

权威造句

1. The " e " in " time " is a silent letter.: time中的e不发音.

2. She studied him for the longest time, looking wryly amused.: 她面带苦笑，盯着他看了很长时间。

3. In her spare time she read books on cooking.: 业余时间里她看一些烹饪方面的书籍。

4. She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.: 她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。

5. Mark had for some time been making advances towards her.: 马克追她已经有一段时间了。

近反义词

time after time 屡次

in time 及时，按时，适时...

time and again 多次

in good time 及时地

against time 争分夺秒(赶时间...

at a time 每次

for the time being 暂时，目前，眼下...

from time to time 有时

all the time 一直，始终

at the same time 同时

on time 准时

the whole time 全部时间(自始至终)...

time and a half 一倍半的工资...

many a time 屡次

the time of one"s life 一生中的得意时代...

keep time 合拍子

in no time 立即，马上

access time 存取时间

behind the times 落在时代后面的(过时...

at times 有时

相似短语

at no time adv.决不

at that time adv.在那时

by the time 到…的时候,截至

in no time 立刻,马上,很快

in time prep.1. 及时地，按时2. 迟早，终究，终于

in time for 及时赶上…

for the time 在当时

at this time prep.当时

At this time prep.当时

by time 余暇

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