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time SUITABLE POINTtaImn, combining forma particular point of the day, week, month, year, etc. that is suitable for a particular activity, or at which something is expected to happen（从事特定活动的）合适时候; 规定时间holiday time [U]假期party time [U]聚会时间Put your toys away now, it's time for bed/bedtime. [U]现在把你的玩具收起来，上床睡觉的时间到了。It's time (that) I was leaving. [U]是我该离开的时候了。Is it time to go home yet? [U + to infinitive]是该回家的时候了吗？When would be a good time for me to call you? [C]我什么时候打电话给你比较合适？This is not the time (= not a suitable moment) to be thinking about buying a house. [U]现在不是考虑买房子的时候。This is no time (= not a suitable moment) to change your mind. [U]现在不是你改变主意的时候。I feel that the time has come (= now is a suitable moment) for me to move on. [U]我感到是我该走的时候了。The repairs to the road were finished two weeks ahead of time (= sooner than was expected). [U]修路工程提前两星期完成。Why is it that the trains never run on time (= make their journeys in the expected number of hours, etc.)? [U]为什么火车从不准点？She's grown old before her time (= sooner than she might have been expected to have done). [U]她过早地变老了。(saying) 'There's a time and a place for everything' means every activity has a particular point in the day which is suitable for it. Often used to suggest that a particular point is not suitable for a particular activity which is happening. Sometimes shortened to 'There's a time and a place'.一定的时候，一定的地方做一定的事。(saying) 'There's no time like the present' means that now is a suitable moment to start doing something. Often used to suggest that a particular activity should be started immediately. 没有比现在(干/做)更好的时候了。(infml) If it is about time/high time that someone did something, it should have been done sooner or a long time ago.差不多是/正是做…的时候It's about time (that) the school improved its meals service.该是学校改善伙食的时候了。It's high time (that) we had the car serviced.是我们该把汽车送去维修的时候了。It is high time for Europe to take responsibility for its own defence and stop depending on the United States.是欧洲该自行担当起防御的责任，不再倚赖美国的时候了。(infml) "So Ben's finally found a job." "Yes, and about time (too)/(Br and Aus also) not before time (= he should have done so before now)." “这么说，本最终找到工作了。”“是的，（也）是该找到了。”If someone is ahead of/(Br also) before their time, they have new ideas or opinions or ways of living long before most other people do.思想过于先进的If you are in time, you are early enough.及时的I got home just in time -- it's starting to rain.我正好及时到家----开始下雨了。If we don't hurry up, we won't be in time to catch the train. [+ to infinitive]如果我们不赶快，就不能及时赶上火车了。We arrived in good time (= We arrived early) for the start of the match.我们及时到达，正赶上比赛开始。The bus arrived exactly/dead/right on time (= at the particular point at which it was expected).公共汽车极为准时地到达。Time is the particular point in the day at which people who are drinking in a bar in Britain have to finish their drinks and leave.（英）（酒店的）打烊时间"Time, please, " called the landlord. “对不起，要打烊了，”房东叫道。Is it time already?已经是打烊的时间了？If you say that the time is ripe, you mean that it is a suitable point for a particular activity.时机成熟I'm waiting till the time is ripe before I tell my parents that I failed my exams.我要等到时机成熟才告诉父母我考试不及格。"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things" (Lewis Carroll in his book Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1872) “谈及许多事情的机会来了，海象说”（刘易斯.卡罗尔的《艾丽丝漫游镜中世界》）
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