八点半”(half past eight)音标: [hɑ:f,] [pɑ:st] [eit]
it is eight-thirty;At half past eight 都可表示为八点半。
相关例句
1.大概是八点半或者九点的时候。
It was about half-past eight or nine.
2.钟的指针指在八点半上, 我们该让孩子们上床睡觉了。
The hands of the clock pointed to half past eight.It was time we put our children to bed.
3.那天早上八点半,我正在《纽约客》编辑部的办公室写一篇有关印度艾滋病情况的稿件。
At eight-thirty that morning I was in my office at The New Yorker working on a story about AIDSin India.
扩展资料:
时间的英文快速表达方法
一 最直接的读法:“小时 + 分钟”:
5:10 five ten
7:30 seven thirty
2:40 two forty
二 巧用介词法:
(1)所表述的时间在30分钟之内,用“分钟 + past/after + 小时”:
6:10 ten past six(英式) / ten after six(美式)
4:20 twenty past four / twenty after four
10:25 twenty-five past ten / twenty-five after ten
(2)所表述的时间在30分钟之后,用“(相差的)分钟 + to/before + (下一)小时”:
10:35 twenty-five to eleven(英式 ) / twenty-five before eleven(美式)
5:50 ten to six / ten before six
9:49 eleven to ten / eleven before ten
(3) 所表述的时间恰好为半小时,用“half + past + 小时”:
11:30 half past eleven
2:30 half past two
(4) 所表述的分钟和15有关,有三种表达法:
(15分钟又叫一刻钟:a quarter)
9:15 - nine fifteen ; fifteen past nine ; a quarter past nine(英式)/
a quarter after nine(美式)
3:45 - three forty-five ; fifteen to four ; a quarter to four/a quarter before four
(5)整点
现在是五点整。
It's five.
It's five o'clock.
It's five o'clock sharp.
It's five o'clock on the dot.
It's five o'clock on the nose.
It's exactly five o'clock.
half past eight
Half A Past Eight
Half past eight