口語技巧:日期年份等數(shù)字的英語表達

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英語聽力的攔路虎其中有一大障礙,就是億、十億這樣的大數(shù)字,還有分數(shù)等等,集*課英語中數(shù)字的讀法。
    Dates 日期
    In English, we can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day:
    你可以先說日期也可以先說月份:
    The first of January / January the first.
    Remember to use ordinal numbers for dates in English.
    記得在說日期時要使用序數(shù)詞。
    (The first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the twenty-second, the thirty-first etc.)
    Years 年份
    For years up until 2000, separate the four numbers into two pairs of two:
    在2000年之前的年份,你可以把四個數(shù)字分成兩部分來說:
    1965 = nineteen sixty-five
    1871 = eighteen seventy-one
    1999 = nineteen ninety-nine
    For this decade, you need to say "two thousand and ..." when speaking British English:
    2000年之后的年份,(英式英語中)你要說"two thousand and ...":
    2001 = two thousand and one
    2009 = two thousand and nine
    Large numbers 大數(shù)目
    Divide the number into units of hundreds and thousands:
    將數(shù)字分成百位和千位:
    400,000 = four hundred thousand (no s plural)
    If the number includes a smaller number, use "and" in British English:
    (英式英語中)如果數(shù)字不是整數(shù),你需要加上"and":
    450,000 = four hundred and fifty thousand
    400,360 = four hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty
    Fractions, ratios and percentages 分數(shù),比例,百分比
    1/2 = one half
    1/3 = one third
    1/4 = one quarter
    1/5 = one fifth
    1/6 = one sixth etc
    3/5 = three fifths
    1.5% = one point five percent
    0.3% = nought / zero point three percent
    2:1 = two to one
    Saying 0 如何說數(shù)字0?
    Depending on the context, we can pronounce zero in different ways:
    根據(jù)語境的不同,我們有很多種說法來表達數(shù)字0:
    2-0 (football) = Two nil
    30 – 0 (tennis) = Thirty love
    604 7721 (phone number) = six oh four…
    0.4 (a number) = nought point four / zero point four
    0℃ (temperature) = zero degrees
    Talking about calculations in English 如何用英語表示算術
    + (plus)
    2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals three)
    - (minus / take away)
    5 – 3 = 2 (five minus three equals two / five take away three equals two)
    x (multiplied by / times)
    2 x 3 = 6 (two multiplied by three equals six / two times three equals six)
    / (divided by)
    6 / 3 = 2 (six divided by three equals two)