英語相似詞辨析(144):some time,sometime,sometimes

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some time,sometime,sometimes
    Some time作為名詞片語,是指一定的時(shí)限而言,表示相當(dāng)長的一段時(shí)間(a long time);作副詞片語時(shí),意為“隨便何時(shí)”。例:
    It will take some time to tell you the whole story.
    把全部經(jīng)過講給你聽需要相當(dāng)長的時(shí)間。
    I haven't seen Mr.Liang for some time.I miss him very much.
    我已好久沒有看見梁先生,我十分想念他。
    Sometime作為副詞,意思是“在某一時(shí)候”、“日后”、“昔時(shí)”,指不定的時(shí)間而言,既可指將來亦可指過去的不確定時(shí)間(any time in the future or in the past)??荚嚧罄?BR>    I will tell you sometime or other.
    我將來會(huì)告訴你的。
    He gave us a detailed report sometime ago.
    他曾給我們一個(gè)詳細(xì)的報(bào)告。
    Sometime亦可用作形容詞,放在名詞之前作定語。例如:
    He was a sometime university professor.
    他曾經(jīng)是大學(xué)的教授。
    從例句可見,這里的sometime相當(dāng)于onetime或former之意。
    Sometimes的意思是“有時(shí)”、“不時(shí)”(at times;now and then)。例:
    The weather is cold and changeable.Now it rains,now it snows,sometimes it hails.
    氣候冷而多變,時(shí)而下雨,時(shí)而下雪,有時(shí)還下冰雹。
    We have letters from her sometimes.
    有時(shí)候,考試大我們會(huì)收到她的信。
    I am sometimes at leisure.
    我間或有暇。