时间词 Words about time

Hi everyone,

I know all of you can tell the time in English – here are words for what we call the “Word Map” of the word “TIME”

on time

just in time    –    in the nick of time

at the last minute

on the stroke of (midnight) – stroke relates to an alarm bell being struck – so in this case = at midnight = right on midnight.

the time of his life  –   this means having such fun eg The dog played in the water,splashing everyone,and having the time of his life.

time of year    springtime  ,wintertime,  summertime  – for some reason we say ” in autumn”

Christmas time

Carnival Time – Brazil

Daylight saving time – means the clocks are brought forward at the beginning of November and put back to normal at the end of March.

Eastern Standard Time = the time zone for the Eastern part of Australia

“Term” = a period of time  eg schools divide the year up into Terms,so there is First Term,Second Term etc and Term holidays.

Sometimes Judges punish people with a term of imprisonment.    A famous book written by Marcus Clarke, who used to live in East St Kilda in Melbourne,was called “For the term of his natural life”

This was the sentance that English Judges handed down on people to banish them to Australia as convicts in 1780″s.