...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。

As time went on the visits got more and more regular.

随着时间的流逝，探访变得越来越频繁。

The social significance of religion has changed over time.

宗教的社会意义随着时间的变迁已经发生了变化。

'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。

What time did he leave?.

他什么时候离开的？

I phoned my mother to ask what time she was coming home.

我打电话给母亲问她几点回家。

The time is now 19 minutes past the hour.

现在的时间是整点过19分。

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。

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。

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。

Listen to me, I haven't got much time.

听着，我没多少时间。

It's obvious that you need more time to think.

显然你需要更多时间来思考。

The route was blocked for some time.

道路被堵了一段时间。

For a long time I didn't tell anyone.

很久我都没有告诉任何人。

A short time later they sat down to eat.

过了一小会儿，他们坐下来吃东西。

Thank you very much for your time.

非常感谢你抽出了宝贵时间。

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。

After a time they came to a pond.

过了好久，他们来到一个池塘。

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。

During the time I was married I tried to be the perfect wife.

在那段婚姻生活中，我努力要做个完美的妻子。

It was a time of terrible uncertainty.

那是一切都很不确定的一段时间。

Homes are more affordable than at any time in the past five years.

现在住宅比过去5年里的任何时候都要便宜。

It seemed like a good time to tell her.

那似乎是告诉她的好时机。

There were times when he would ring his bell at all hours of the day or night.

有段时间，他白天或晚上随时都可能摁铃。

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。

We are in one of the most severe recessions in modern times.

我们正在经历现代最严重的一段经济衰退。

A 'Felucca' is the traditional Nile sailboat, unchanged since the time of the pharaohs.

Felucca 是尼罗河地区的传统帆船，自法老时代起就没有变过。

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。

Johnny has changed his image to fit the times.

约翰尼已经改变了他的形象以迎合时代潮流。

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。

You had an easy time of it at home.

你在家度过了一段轻松时光。

I try to remember all the good times I've had here.

我试着回忆在这里度过的所有美好时光。

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。

I doubt I would change anything if I had my time again.

如果能重新活过，我不确定自己是否愿意做出任何改变。

Opinion polls indicated a feeling among the public that it was time for a change. [+ for]

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. [+ for]

他该去上班了。

This was no time to make a speech.

这不是长篇大论的时候。

The time has come to put an end to the conflict.

结束冲突的时候到了。

It's time you went to school.

你该去上学了。

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。

House prices are rising for the first time since November.

房价自 11 月以来首次上涨。

Next time you go shopping, throw in a few extra fruit and vegetables.

下次你去买东西，多买点水果蔬菜。

Remember that time she picked up my daughter when I was ill?

还记得那次我生病，她替我接女儿吗？

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？

The Masters golf tournament was won a second time by the American Ben Hogan.

美国的本·霍根再次夺得高尔夫大师锦标赛冠军。

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。

He polled four times as many votes as his rival.

他得到的选票数量是竞选对手的4倍。

...an area five times the size of Britain.

面积为英国领土5倍大的区域

Four times six is 24.

4 乘以 6 等于 24。

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。

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。

He timed the election to coincide with new measures to boost the economy. [VERB noun to-infinitive]

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. [VERB noun + for]

我们把访问时间确定在3月7日。

He had timed his intervention well. [VERB noun adv.]

他选择介入的时机恰到好处。

Operation Amazon is timed to coincide with the start of the dry season. [V-ed to-inf]

拯救亚马孙河的行动安排在了旱季来临之际。

He timed each performance with a stop-watch. [VERB noun]

他用秒表测定每组动作所花的时间。

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。”

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。

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。

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。

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。

Do you sometimes find that you are doing very little physical exercise for several weeks at a time?

你有时会不会发现自己一连几个星期都没怎么锻炼过？

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。

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。

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

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。

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。

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。

He went on listening to her, at times impatient and at times fascinated.

他继续听她讲，有时很不耐烦，有时深受吸引。

'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。”

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。

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。

Scott Hastings has called time on his international career by cutting short his contract. [+ on]

斯科特·黑斯廷斯中止合同，结束了他的国际比赛生涯。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

I arrived just in time for my flight to London. [+ for]

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。

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。

Her body swayed in time with the music. [+ with]

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。

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。

If we're out, we always make sure we're home in good time for the programme. [+ for]

如果外出，我们总是确保在节目开始之前赶回家。

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。”

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。

Now, in your own time, tell me what happened.

现在慢慢告诉我发生了什么事。

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。

As he sang he kept time on a small drum.

他边唱边和着节拍敲一个小鼓。

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。

Before leaving the city, be sure to make time for a shopping trip. [+ for]

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。

I think you should always make time to see your friends.

我认为无论何时你都应该留出看望朋友的时间。

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。

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。

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。

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。

'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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

'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。

My four-year-old daughter cannot quite tell the time.

我4岁大的女儿还不大会看表。

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。

Time flies when you're having fun.

开心的时光总是飞逝而去。

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。

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。

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。

Tom wasted no time in telling me why he had come.

汤姆马上告诉了我他来的原因。