核心畫面
Picture the one river everything floats down — the medium we live inside, flowing whether we watch it or not. Every use ladles from it: cut a point out (a clock moment, an occasion), scoop a stretch (a period, an era, a free slot), count the splashes going by (how often, 'how many times'), measure how long a stretch takes (a race result), or reach in to plan or clock the flow (the verb).
可以想成一條大河，所有東西都順著它漂下去——它是我們全都泡在裡面的那個介質，不管你看不看，它都一直流。所有用法都從這…更多收起
可以想成一條大河，所有東西都順著它漂下去——它是我們全都泡在裡面的那個介質，不管你看不看，它都一直流。所有用法都從這條流動的河長出來：從河裡切出一個點（鐘錶上的時刻、一次場合）、舀出一段水（一段時期、一個時代、一段空檔）、數有幾朵浪花經過（頻率、「幾次」）、量一段水流多久（比賽成績）、甚至伸手去安排或量這條河（動詞）。它鬆鬆地是同一條河，每個家族只是從不同段把水舀起來。原始詞典資料36 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
timenoun/taɪm/
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The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
- Time is the fire in which we burn.
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The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- Time flies when you're having fun.
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
- So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated – was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
- Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
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A duration of time.
- More time is needed to complete the project.
- You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.
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A duration of time.
- a long time
- Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.
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slangA duration of time.
- The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.
- He is not living at home because he is doing time.
另外 18 個記錄的用法
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A duration of time.
- We had a wonderful time at the party.
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A duration of time.
- Roman times
- the time of the dinosaurs
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A duration of time.
- In my time, we respected our elders.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA duration of time.
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An instant of time.
- Excuse me, have you got the time?
- What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?
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An instant of time.
- it’s time for (you to go to) bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
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An instant of time.
- At what times do the trains arrive?
- These times were erroneously converted between zones
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An instant of time.
- one more time
- When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
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An instant of time.
- Last call: it's almost time.
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An instant of time.
- […]came well to Exeter; where ſhe intended to ſtay, till ſhe was deliver’d; for ſhe was within little more than one Month of her time;[…]
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An instant of time.
- It was his time.
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The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
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A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- Your car runs three times faster than mine.
- That is four times as heavy as this.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe measured duration of sounds.
- dance time; march time
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe measured duration of sounds.
- The musician keeps good time.
- some few lines set unto a solemn time
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe measured duration of sounds.
- common or triple time; time signature
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe measured duration of sounds.
- After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.
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obsoletegrammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsSynonym of tense
- the time of a verb
- Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which the time of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined;[…]
timeverb/taɪm/
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To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
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To choose when something commences or its duration.
- The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
- The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
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obsoleteTo keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
- With oar strokes timing to their song.
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obsoleteTo pass time; to delay.
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To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
- He was a thing of blood, whose every motion / Was timed with dying cries.
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To measure, as in music or harmony.
timeintj/taɪm/
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hobbieslifestylesportsReminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
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The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
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A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
- Time gentlemen please!
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。