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Hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. Time is important.
大家好，我是 Emma，歡迎來到美味英語頻道。時間很重要。
We think about it, we talk about it many, many times a day, right from that moment you first wake up in the morning.
Now, of course, we have lots of different ways to express time in English, specific collocations, fixed expressions and phrasal verbs that help you to express different relationships to time.
我們每天會思考很多次時間，我們會談論很多次時間，就從你早晨醒來的那一刻開始。
當然了，在英語中我們有很多不同的方式來表達時間，一些特定的搭配，固定的表達還有動詞短語可以幫助大家不同的時間關係。
Today we're going to cover twenty-four useful expressions to help you talk about time, when you've got enough of it, or heaps of it, not enough of it.
We'll also talk about some expressions that will help you to pass time and ask for more time, as well as some extra bonus idioms and expressions to help you express yourself clearly.
今天我們將要談論時時刻刻都非常有用的表達，可以幫助大家談論時間，當你時間充足，時間很多，或者是時間不夠的情況。
我們還將討論一些表達方式，可以幫助大家打發時間，尋求更多的時間，以及一些額外的習語和表達，可以幫助大家更加清晰地表達自我。
So we've got a lot to get through today. We're going to move quickly.
我們今天可有很多東西要學習呢。我們得快點採取行動呢。
If you've got any questions at all, make sure you add them into the comments below so that I can answer them for you. Let's get started!
如果你有任何問題的話，一定要把它們寫到下面的評論中，這樣我就可以去回答問題啦。讓我們開始吧！
Right now I'd like to spare a little bit of time for our wonderful friends at Lingoda who've been busy getting ready for their next big event, the ninety-day Lingoda Language Sprint.
If you haven't registered yet, you've still got time because the closing date for registrations has been extended until the 26th of June.
現在我想花點時間為我們的好朋友 Lingoda 進行一下宣傳，他們在忙著準備下一場盛事，也就是九十天 Lingoda 語言衝刺跑。
如果你尚未註冊的話，還有時間的哦，因為截止日期延長到6月26日啦。
Now you can get all the details about how it works and find out how you can get a one hundred percent refund on your class fees by checking out this video up here. Of all the places that you can learn a language online Lingoda are, in my opinion, one of the best.
大家可以點擊這個視頻，獲得所有的這是如何運作的細節，以及找到你如何能得到全額課程費用退款的信息。在所有的在線學習語言平臺之中，我認為 Lingoda 是最好的之一。
Anyone who watches my channel regularly knows that I've taken plenty of Spanish classes with Lingoda myself and I've also spent some time exploring the English curriculum and teaching methods.
As a teacher, what I love about Lingoda is the clear structure of their lessons.
經常看我頻道的人應該知道我在 Lingoda 上面上了很多西班牙語課，我也花了很多時間來探索英語課程和教學方法。
作為一名老師，我最喜歡 Lingoda 的一點是他們清晰的課程結構。
You always know what you need to do next and you're always working your way towards your next certification. If you're interested in private one-to-one lessons, you can take those with Lingoda.
你永遠知道下一步該怎麼做，而且你總是在不斷努力，獲取下一個技能認證。如果你對私人一對一課程感興趣的話，你可以在 Lingoda 上面找到這種課程。
But if you prefer to learn in small groups and meet other people, well you can take group classes as well.
All of Lingoda's classes are delivered by native teachers and each one is live, it's interactive so you can participate and there are classes available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
但是如果你喜歡以小組形式和其他人一起學習的話，也可以參加小班課程。
Lingoda 的所有課程均由母語為外語的老師教授，大家都是活生生的人，互動性很強，這樣你就可以參與其中，每周每天每個小時都有課程提供。
So if you'd like to try it out, there are a couple of ways that you can get started.
You can sign up for free for seven days and join up to three group classes or you can use this code to get a twenty euro discount off your first payment.
如果你想嘗試一下的話，有幾種方法可以開始。
你可以進行註冊並享受免費7 天體驗期，最多參加三個小班課程，也可以使用這個優惠碼獲得第一次付款時二十歐元的折扣。
I'll put all of the links into the description below but it's definitely worth taking a look. Let me know what you think.
我會將所有連結放在下面的描述中，絕對值得一看。告訴我大家是怎麼想的。
All right it's about time we got started and we're going to go through some collocations and some common expressions for when we have time, when we have enough or we have lots of time. So, of course, this collocation is really important.
好了，現在我們該開始了，我們將共同學習一些搭配和一些常見的表達，來描述當我們有足夠的時間，或時間很多時的情況。當然，這種搭配真的很重要。
It's what this whole category is about. 'To have time' means that you're available for something or you're unoccupied or you're not busy and so you're able to do something.
這整一類都是與此有關的。「有時間」意思是你有空做某件事情，你的時間沒有被其他的事情佔據，你並不忙，所以你可以做點什麼事情。
I have time to meet with you on Tuesday. And we can keep building on this because we have quite a few expressions that use 'have time', these fixed expressions.
我有時間在星期二與你見面。我們可以在此基礎上繼續添加，因為我們有很多表達使用「have time」，這些固定的表達。
So when you've got more time than you need, you have plenty of time, plenty of time. Not only do you have time for something but you've got a lot of time available for it.
因此，當你的時間超過所需的時間時，你就有很多時間。不只是有時間做某件事情，是你有很多時間可以做。
So if someone said to you "Are you sure you don't mind helping me? You could say "Sure, I have plenty of time" or "I've got plenty of time! I can help".
如果有人問你：「你確定你不介意幫我嗎？」你可以說：「當然，我有很多時間。」或者是，「我有很多時間！我可以提供幫助」。
Another way to express the same thing is to say that you have time on your hands. Now this is a pretty casual phrase.
另外一種表達同樣意思的方式是說你手頭時間很充足。現在這是一個很隨意非正式的句子。
It's often used when you find yourself with some unexpected time available. I had some extra time on my hands, so I offered to manage the community garden.
它經常用在當你發現自己有很多意料之外的時間的情況中。我手頭時間很充裕，所以我主動提出要管理社區的花園。
And if you want to be really dramatic and exaggerate how much spare time you have, then you could say that you have all the time in the world.
Now this expression is often used sarcastically, you know, to make a joke.
如果你想戲劇性一點，誇張地說你有多少空閒時間的話，那你可以說：我有世界上所有的時間。這個表達經常用來表達諷刺的意思，你懂得，就是開玩笑的時候。
So if I said "What day are you free to meet this week?" Well I quit my job so now I have all the time in the world!
如果我說：「你這周哪天有時間見面？」我辭掉了工作，現在可是個大閒人呢！
Take your time. Now this expression is useful when you want to tell someone else to relax, you know, they don't need to stress because you're not worried about how long it may take.
不用著急。當你想要告訴別人讓他們放輕鬆時，這個表達非常有用，他們不需要有什麼壓力，因為你並不擔心會花多長時間。
You have the time to wait so you say "Take your time." Another way to use this same expression is when you're doing something really slowly because you're really enjoying it.
你有時間等等待，所以你說：「不用著急。」當你做某件事情做的非常慢，因為你真的很享受其中的時候，也可以使用這個表達。
Take your time driving down the coast, there are lots of beautiful places to stop along the way. And pay close attention to that verb.
不用著急，沿著海岸線驅車行駛，一路上有很多美麗的地方可以駐足停留。要注意一下動詞。
If you choose to use a verb with this expression, then you need to use the -ing form, not the infinitive. No rush.
如果你選擇在這個表達式中使用動詞的話，那麼你需要使用-ing形式，而非是不定式。不用著急。
This is another informal way of saying kind of the same thing, to take your time. No rush, there's no rush.
這是表達同樣的意思的另外一種非正式的用法，不要急，慢慢來。不著急，不著急。
This is a fixed expression so it's always used in this way, kind of casually and it's usually something that you tell the other person. When do you need the report by?
這是一個固定表達，所以一直要這麼用，一般來說是比較隨意的，通常是你告訴別人不用著急。你什麼時候需要報告？
No rush, anytime next week is fine! Now when you're talking about yourself and your own actions, you need to include a preposition.
不用著急，下周就可以！當你談論自己和自己的行為時，你需要加入一個介詞。
You need to say I'm not in a rush. No rush.
你需要說：我不著急。不著急。
I'm not in a rush. Okay on to the second list now.
我不著急。好的，讓我們來到第二個列表。
I told you we'd be moving quickly. So we just talked about having time, maybe having lots of time but now we're going to talk about the opposite when there's a lack of time.
我告訴過你我們的步速可是會很快的。我們剛才談論的是時間很充裕的情況，現在我們要談論相反的情況，也就是我們時間不夠。
Okay we don't have enough time. So in those situations, you can say that you are pressed for time.
好的，我們時間不夠。在這些情況下，你可以說你的時間被擠壓了（時間不夠）。
It's often used as a way to remind someone to hurry up, to go a little bit faster. Look I'm a little pressed for time right now.
通常用作提醒某人快一點，別那麼磨蹭。我現在時間不太夠。
Can you just give me a call back once you know the answer? So it's probably a little formal so it's great to use in a professional context at work.
知道答案後，你能馬上給我回電話嗎？這可能有點正式，所以最好在工作場合中使用它。
If you want something more informal, then you can say that you are short on time. I'd love to catch up for lunch, but I'm a bit short on time today.
如果你想要一些非正式的表達的話，你可以說你的時間有限。我想去吃午餐，但是我今天時間有點不太夠。
Can we meet next week instead? When you're running out of time, you're going as fast as you can but you have to finish something, you don't have enough time to do it.
我們可以下周再聚嗎？當你時間不夠的時候，你能趕多快就趕多快，但是你需要完成某件事情，你沒有足夠的時間去做了。
The time that you need to do it by is getting closer and closer and closer so you're running out of time.
Now you use the continuous version when there's still a little bit of time left but it doesn't seem like enough, you know it's like: Hurry, hurry we're running out of time!
你需要完成這件事情的時間越來越近，越來越近了，所以你的時間不多了。如果還剩下一點點的時間的話，要使用進行時，但是看起來好像並不夠，你知道情況是什麼樣的：快點快點，我們沒時間了！
We've still got a little bit of time but there's not much time left. And we use the past tense when that time is already over, you know, we can't finish the action now, it's too late.
我們還有一點點時間，但剩下的時間不多了。當時間已經結束的時候，我們要使用過去時，我們沒有完成這件事情，已經為時已晚。
I wanted to tidy up before my parents arrived but I ran out of time. So I never actually got to complete the action.
我想在家人回家之前打掃乾淨，但是我沒時間了。我沒有完成這個動作。
This is another great expression in this situation. When you're panicked, you're trying to finish before you run out of time, well then you're in a race against time.
在這種情況下，有另外一個很好的表達。當你非常恐慌，你努力地在時間耗盡之前完成，那這種情況你可以說你在和時間賽跑。
Me verse time right? Imagine that you are in a race with time, who's gonna win that race?
我和時間對抗，對吧？想像一下你在和時間比賽，誰會贏得那場比賽？
You know a literal race, you or time? The fire was moving quickly towards the town so the firefighters were in a race against time.
如果是真實的比賽的話，是你還是時間呢？火勢正在迅速向城市蔓延，因此消防員們在和時間對抗。
Or they were racing against time. And if you do run out of time, then time's up.
他們在和時間對抗。如果你時間耗盡了的話，那麼就是「時間到了」。
'Time's up' is what we say when there is officially no more time, you can't continue. Now it's almost always said in the contracted form, time's up, not time is up, but time's up.
當已經沒有任何時間，你不能繼續的時候，我們會說「時間到了」。它基本上都使用縮寫形式，time's up, 不是 time is up, 而是 time's up.
And it can be used as a way of saying stop like when you're playing a game or when you're sitting an exam and the time finishes.
If it was a one-hour exam, the exam finishes after an hour, put down your pencils.
當你在玩遊戲或者是參加考試，時間到了的時候，這也可以用作叫停。如果是一個小時的考試，則該考試將在一個小時後結束，放下你的筆。
Time's up. Now if you don't have time but it's really important that you create some time, you need to make time.
時間到了。如果你沒有時間，但是時間對你而言很重要的話，你需要創造一些時間。
Now it suggests that you need to make a decision, not to do something in order to create that time or to create the opportunity to do something.
So you'll often hear people saying "I need to make more time for my kids"
這意味著你需要做出決定，不去做某件事情，來為做另一件事情創造時間或者是機會。你經常會聽到人們說：「我必須為孩子擠出更多時間」。
I know it's really important for you so I'll make time to do it. Time is flying!
我知道這對你真的很重要，所以我會擠出時間來做。時間飛逝！
And that is our next category, time passing quickly. Don't you think that it's really weird that the same actual amount of time can pass really quickly for one person and then really slowly for another?
這是我們的下一類，時間飛逝類的表達。你不覺得這很奇怪嗎？相同多的時間，有些人覺得過得很快，而有些人覺得過得很慢嗎？
That's what we're going to talk about now. So 'time flies' and we use the continuous tense when whatever we're doing in that moment feels like it's happening really, really quickly.
我們現在就要討論這個問題。「時光飛逝」，我們也可以使用進行時態，當我們在做某件事情的時候覺得時間真的過得非常非常快的時候。
Is it 2pm already? Time is flying!
This is also when you start to hear strange expressions like "Where has the day gone?", like "The day's disappeared", but it's just that time is disappearing so quickly that it feels like half the day is gone.
已經下午兩點了嗎？時間飛逝啊！你也會在這種情況下聽到奇怪的表達，比如說：「時間都去哪兒了？」，或者是：「時間莫名其妙消失了」，但其實就是時間過得如此之快，突然就過了大半天了。
Where's the day gone? And we use the simple present 'time flies' to make a general statement about when time passes quickly.
時間去哪兒了？我們使用的是一般現在時「time flies」來表達寬泛的時間飛逝的概念。
'Time flies when you're having fun' is a common expression and it's often shortened to simply 'time flies'.
And when time passes so quickly, when you're doing something that you're so interested or you're so involved in doing that you don't realise how much time has passed then you lose track of time.
「當你玩得很開心時，時間就會過得飛快」，是一個常見的表達，一般就會被縮寫為「時間飛逝」。
當時間飛逝的時候，當你做一些你非常感興趣的事情的時候，或者你太專注於做某件事情，以至於都沒有注意到過去多少時間了，那你就是「忘了時間了」。
You've heard me talk about this expression before. It's usually used in the past tense after you finally have taken a break from whatever you've been doing and you suddenly realise how much time has passed.
你以前聽我說過這個短語。它通常用過去時形式，當你終於可以從你一直做的事情中脫身休息一下，突然意識到竟然已經過了那麼久了。
And finally, if you did lose track of time and you complete a task or something after you should have done it, then the best phrase to use is 'better late than never'.
So this expression is quite a good informal or friendly apology to remind someone not to get upset because you've done something late.
最後，如果你忘記了時間，所以在規定時間之後才完成某件事情的話，那最好的短語就是：「遲做總比不做的強。」
所以這個表達是一個很好的非正式或友好的道歉，提醒某人不要因為某件事情做得晚了而難過。
The fact is it got done and that's a good thing. So this is a fixed expression that doesn't really need further explanation.
總歸是做完了，那就是很好的事情。這是一個固定表達，不需要繼續進行解釋。
So just imagine that your friend's birthday was last month and you completely forgot about it so you bought an extra special present to make up for it and you could say "Better late than never right?"
So this expression is used for trips, you know, when you're on some kind of journey or a trip and you're actually getting there faster than you thought that you would so you're making good time.
想像一下上個月你朋友的生日，你完全忘記了這件事情，所以你額外買了一個特殊的禮物來進行彌補，你可以說：遲到總比沒有的好，對吧？這個表達也可以用於旅行，你在旅途之中，你比自己預期的更早到了，所以你玩的很開心。
Now I think we're about halfway there. We're making good time!
我覺得路程大概已經過了一半了。我們玩得很開心！
Or you could say "We made good time! I wasn't expecting to be here by sunset."
或者可以說：「我們玩得很開心！我沒想到日落之前能趕到這裡。」
To make up for lost time. Now this expression is a really specific one.
為了彌補逝去的時間。這個表達是非常具體的。
She hasn't seen her mother in years and now they're making up for lost time! She missed out on seeing her mum for many, many years and now finally they're spending some time together.
她好多年沒見媽媽了，現在它們在彌補逝去的光陰！她想念她的母親很多很多年了，最終她們終於在一起歡度時光了。
Lots of time together and they do it more often to make up for the time that they didn't have before. Really good one to know, to make up for lost time.
她們有很多時間在一起，她們經常聚在一起，來彌補之前沒有的那些時間。了解這個表達相當好，彌補失去的時間。
Now time doesn't always pass quickly, sometimes it passes so slowly. But hopefully, that's not the case now.
時間並不總是過得很快，有時候會過得很慢。但希望現在並不是這樣。
So usually if you want time to go faster, to feel faster, then you need to do something to keep yourself busy for a while to pass time. Watching movies is a great way to pass time on a long flight.
如果你希望時間快一點，感覺時間過得快一點，那麼你需要做點事情使自己忙碌起來來消磨時光。在長途飛行中，看電影是很好的消磨時間的方法。
A more informal version of that same phrase is to kill time. I've been killing time by listening to music before my appointment.
另外一個非正式的表達是：打發時間。我在約會之前聽音樂打發時間。
Now it sounds kind of violent, doesn't it? But it's not.
聽起來有點暴力，對嗎？但事實並非如此。
This is just an expression. Now we often need to ask for more time, don't we?
只是一個表達方式而已。我們經常需要要求多一點時間，對吧？
When things are happening too quickly or too many things are happening at once. So often you need to ask someone politely to wait.
當事情太快的時候，或同時發生太多事情的時候。所以你經常需要禮貌地讓某個人等待一下。
So imagine I'm on the phone and I'm speaking with someone and at the same time you come up to me to ask a question and I might say to you "Just give me a second. I'm on the phone." Or "Hang on a minute. I'm on the phone."
想像一下我正在打電話，和某人聊天，同時你也來找我問一個問題，我可能對你說：「請稍等一下。我正在打電話。」或者是：「稍等片刻，我在打電話。」
Now we always use a second or a minute in these expressions like a second is all of the time that you need. It doesn't really matter, it's just a way of asking for more time, for extra time.
我們在這些表達中說一秒鐘或者是一分鐘，好像我們就需要這麼一點時間一樣。但是其實沒有關係，這只是要求給自己多點時間的方式罷了。
So even if it sounds ridiculous, it doesn't matter, you might need more than a minute or more than a second. But it's okay.
即使聽起來很荒謬，也沒關係，你可能需要不止一分鐘或者是一秒鐘的時間。但這沒關係。
In fact, if you're speaking sort of informally with someone, the lazier version of that is to say "Give me a sec" and if you want to be even lazier again, then you can shorten the whole expression to "one sec". One sec, I'm on the phone.
其實呢，如果你在和某個人進行非正式的聊天，更加偷懶的一個版本可以說：「給我一秒鐘」，如果你想再懶一點的話，那你可以把整個表達縮減成「一秒鐘（請稍等片刻）」。稍等片刻，我正在打電話。
And that's important. Body language.
這很重要。身體語言。
One sec, I'm on the phone. Or you could say "Just a sec! I can't find my keys!"
請稍等，我正在打電話。或者你可以說：「等一下！我找不到我的鑰匙了！」說。
Are we making good time? No we're almost out of time!
我們玩得開心嗎？不，我們快沒時間了！
But for those of you who have stuck with me all the way through, I've got some really awesome bonus idioms and expressions for you, ones that are really useful, really common expressions. Like this one, to do time.
想和那些和我一起堅持到現在的人說，我為大家準備了一些很好的加分習語和表達，它們是非常非常有用，非常非常常見的表達。就像這個一樣，坐牢。
Now this sounds really general but it has a very specific meaning. To do time is to spend time in prison.
它聽起來很籠統，但它卻具有非常具體的含義。「To do time」就是在坐過監獄的意思。
He did time during his twenties because he was caught stealing. Now that is definitely one verb that you don't want to mistake right?
他二十歲的時候坐過監獄，因為他被抓到偷竊。這個東西你肯定不想用錯，對吧？
An important collocation because it's only really used in that context to talk about someone in jail. A blast from the past.
這是一個非常重要的搭配，因為它只用於談論某人坐牢的這種情況。歲月迴響。
Now this is a really fun expression that I love to use. A blast from the past is kind of what it sounds like.
這是一個非常有趣的短語，我很喜歡使用。「過去的爆炸」意思如其名。
It's something or someone from your past who pops up and surprises you in the present moment so it usually brings back fond memories or positive memories.
It's like if a favourite song that you haven't heard in years comes onto the radio, then you might say "Woah, this song is a blast from the past! Turn it up!"
過去的某件事情或者是某個人突然出現在當下，讓你感到驚訝，將你帶回那些美好的回憶當中。
就像是你很喜歡的一首歌，已經很多年沒有聽了，突然出現在收音機中，那你可以說：「哇，這首歌讓我想起了過去的時光！大點聲！」
Now these expressions are both useful and very common in the workplace. So when you're presenting or you're giving an opinion or you're trying to summarise something, these can be so helpful.
這些表達在工作場合和非常有用，也很常見。當你展示的時候，給出自己的觀點的時候，或者是進行總結的時候，這些會非常有用。
'In the long run' means over a long period of time where eventually something will happen. It's a big investment now but in the long run we'll make money.
「從長遠來看」意味著很長一段時間之後，某件事情最終會發生的。現在看起來是一筆大投資，但從長遠來看，我們會賺錢的。
Now 'in the short term' is the opposite right? From now until a point in the near future so it's probably months not years which is the long run.
那「短期」表達的就是相反的意思，對吧？從現在到不久的將來，可能是幾個月，但不是幾年，因為那就是長期了。
This space is going to work in the short term, but we'll need a bigger place eventually. All right here's the last one, 'before your time'.
這個地方短時間內還可以，但是我們最終還是需要一個更大一點的地方。好的，現在是最後一個了，「before your time」。
And this is an expression that kids really get tired of hearing because 'before your time', it means something that happened before you were born or just before you were paying attention.
And you could say this to someone as a reason why they don't understand something you know.
這個表達孩子們可能已經聽夠了，因為「在你出生之前」的意思是在你降生人世之前發生的事情，或者是你在注意之前發生的事情。你可以跟某個人說這個表達，作為解釋為什麼他們不理解你知道的某件事情的原因。
Life before the internet was a lot different but it was before your time. So you wouldn't understand.
網際網路出現之前的生活截然不同，但是那是你出生之前的事情了。所以你無法理解。
Or you can say it about yourself as an excuse why you don't understand something or why you don't know something. I'm not sure, that was before my time.
或者你可以以此為藉口，來說你為什麼不能理解某件事情，或者是為什麼你不知道某件事情。我不確定，這是在我出生之前的事情了。
Believe it or not, there are even more expressions about time in English so if you can think of any others that I've missed in this lesson, then make sure you share them below.
Use it in a sentence so that I can check it for you.
其實英文中還有很多的關於時間的表達，如果你想想到什麼我在這節課程中漏掉的東西的話，一定要在評論區分享哦。用它造個句，方便我為大家檢查。
You've probably noticed that you have to be very careful with prepositions and collocations about time.
Many of these expressions that we went through today are fixed expressions which means you have to use the whole expression in your sentence or else it doesn't make any sense.
你可能已經注意到，在時間表達的介詞和固定搭配你要格外小心。我們今天學到的很多表達方式都是固定表達，那也就意味著你需要在你的句子中使用完整的表達，否則就毫無意義。
Now I want to thank you for spending some time with me today going through these expressions, practising with me. I hope that you learned something new.
謝謝大家今天花時間和我一起學習這些表達，和我一起進行練習。我希望你們學到了一些新的東西。
Make sure you check out Lingoda, all the links are in the description below. Subscribe and make sure you keep practising with me in these lessons right here.
一定要去看看 Lingoda 哦，所有的連結都在下方描述區。記得要訂閱，也要和我一起在這些課程中繼續進行練習哦。
See you soon!
再見啦！