We whiled away the time reading and playing cards.
我们靠看书和玩纸牌消磨时间。
I still hadn't wound my watch so I didn't know the time.
我还没给手表上发条，所以我不知道时间。
Their family goes back to the time of the Pilgrim Fathers.
他们家族的渊源可追溯到清教徒前辈移民时代。
Well, parenthetically, I was trying to quit smoking at the time.
嗯，插一句，我那时正尝试戒烟。
I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report.
我认为现在不是对这份报告的措辞吹毛求疵的时候。
In this example 'X' denotes the time taken and 'Y' denotes the distance covered.
在这个例子中，X表示所用的时间，Y表示所行的距离。
By the time he was sixteen, Malcolm already knew most of the city's teenage hangouts.
马尔科姆16岁的时候已经知道了城里青少年常去的大多数地方。
Jet lag is caused because the body clock does not readjust immediately to the time change.
时差是因为生物钟没有立即适应时间的改变而引起的。
They took the time to talk about the loss of Thomas and how their grief was affecting them.
他们花时间来谈论托马斯的去世以及悲伤给他们带来的影响。
If you have been thinking about buying mutual funds, now could be the time to take the plunge.
如果你一直在考虑购买共同基金，现在也许是冒险一试的时候了。
If she could just establish the time the picture had been taken, Mick would have a watertight alibi.
只要她能确定拍这张照片的时间，米克就可以有一个无懈可击的不在现场的证据。
"That's the time you weren't well, wasn't it?"—"Yes, that's right, that was a week ago last Monday."
“就是那个时候你不舒服，是吗？”——“是的，就是一周前的星期一。”
By the time I was vice chancellor, the Senate had become a much larger and a much more democratic body.
到我做副校长的那个时候，大学评议会已经成为一个更大、更民主的机构了。
She leaves the lights on all the time.
她总是让灯亮着。
Reforms were promised when the time was ripe.
曾经作出承诺，时机一成熟就进行改革。
The soldiers concerned were unarmed at the time.
有关士兵当时未携带武器。
At the time, Arnold had disapproved of such levity.
那时候，阿诺德不赞成如此的轻浮行为。
He passed the time chatting with fellow travellers.
他与同行的旅客闲聊消磨时间。
The children passed the time playing in the streets.
孩子们在街上玩耍消磨时间。
That phone ringing all the time is driving me nuts !
那电话铃一直响个不停，吵得我快要发疯了。
She's only five—she hasn't learnt to tell the time yet.
她才五岁，还没有学会看钟表。
Film-makers of the time were constricted by the censors.
那时的电影制作人受到了审查官的限制。
We have extended the time limit for claims until July 30.
我们已经把索赔的时限延长到7月30日了。
When I worked in Florida I dealt with tourists all the time.
我在佛罗里达州工作时一直和游客打交道。
She was tired and out of sorts by the time she arrived home.
她回到家里，又累又烦。
The time came for the sermon and he ascended the pulpit steps.
布道的时间到了，他迈上了讲坛的台阶。
I'd love to have a break, but I can't spare the time just now.
我是想休息一下，可眼下找不出时间。
The religious climate at the time was uncongenial to new ideas.
当时的宗教气候容不得新思想。
By the time we had made landfall the boat looked ten years older!
等到我们登陆时，这艘船看似已老了10年！
At the time we couldn't have anticipated the result of our campaigning.
当时我们不可能预期到我们活动的结果。
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