The fourth chapter inspects approximate quantity expression without number, especially approximate words and approximate time word.
第四章考察不含数目的约量表达形式，其中重点分析约数词及约量时间词；
In other words, the X in the formula can be simply a time word, or a more complicated verbal expression, or, as we will learn later, a complex sentence.
另外，X部分可以是一个简单的时间词语，或者更复杂的动词性描写，甚至非常复杂的句子，这个我们后便会讲到。
The only journalist who witnessed the event, George M. Taber of Time magazine, published an article about the tasting and word quickly spread.
唯一见证了这一事件的记者，《时代》杂志的乔治·M·塔贝尔发表了一篇关于这次品鉴会的文章，消息迅速传开。
This is a broad and somewhat fuzzy word, and we'll spend some time on it in the upcoming chapter.
这是一个广泛而有些模糊的词汇，我们将在接下来的章节中花一些时间讨论它。
Tess would like a dollar for every time she had heard that word misused by television journalists.
特丝每次听到电视台记者用错那个词，都恨不得收他们一美元。
The computer acts as a word processor where the text of a speech can be input at any time.
计算机起着文字处理器的作用，一篇讲话的文本可随时输入。
The teachers began on time, ended on time, and left the room without saying a word more to their students, very seldom being detained by questioners.
老师们准时开始，准时结束，一个字也没对学生多说就离开了教室，很少被提问者拦住。
Brewer says that the word comes from the time when silk or cloth shoes were worn indoors and in dry conditions.
Brewer说，这个词来自于人们在室内和干燥的地方穿丝鞋或布鞋的时代。
Over time, people began to use the word "restaurant" to refer to a place selling soup rather than the soup itself.
随着时间的推移，人们开始用“餐馆”这个词来指代卖汤的地方，而不是汤本身。
He could hear Mary crying, and putting in a kindly word for him from time to time.
他听见玛丽在哭，还不时替他说几句好话。
Before they had time to say another word, a tiger came in.
他们还没来得及再说一个字，一只老虎就进来了。
In a word, family members can make us full of energy and powerful all the time.
总之，家人可以让我们一直充满能量和力量。
At that time, Allyson, my then eight-year-old, came to join us and listened to every word.
那时，我当时八岁的孩子阿莉森也加入了我们的谈话中来，听着我们说的每一个字。
It includes four steps: seeing a word, getting back its meaning from your memory, connecting it to other words in the same sentence, and then moving on to the next word. This process uses many parts of the brain at one time.
它包括四个步骤：看到一个单词，回忆这个词的意思，将它与句子中其他单词联系起来，再看下一个单词。这个过程同时调动了大脑的很多部分进行工作。
This is a broad and somewhat fuzzy word, and we'll spend some time on it in an upcoming chapter.
这是一个广泛而有些模糊的词汇，我们将花一些时间在接下来的章节中讨论它。
The Time article even explains where the word came from-at least as far back as the movie the year before.
上面这篇文章甚至还解释了这个单词的由来——起码，它追溯到了上一年的那部电影。
Reading provides no pleasure and is anything but relaxing when the anxious parent barks out the correct word every time the child hesitates or guesses wrongly.
阅读提供不了快乐；当孩子每次犹豫或猜错一个字，焦急的老师或家长大声吼出正确的读音时，阅读对于孩子来说一点也不轻松。
Over time, the word became associated with the burgeoning computer programming scene, at MIT and beyond.
时过境迁，在麻省理工和其他地方，这个词就开始和电脑程序联系起来了。
At any time you can double-tap a word to pull up the correction window for it.
任何时刻，你都可以双击一个单词，将其拉入校正窗口。
Maybe the next time a Hollywood film USES the word "glocal", it will get its meaning right.
如果再次看到这个词出现在好莱坞影片里，或许就不会出现误解了。
Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes.
世界始终屏保会随着时间的流逝通过加亮恰当的字词来显示时间。
She was doing a terrific job, and it was time to take the word acting out of her title.
她干得不错，现在是把她头衔上的“代理”去掉的时候了。
Out of "an abundance of caution", Barack Obama has taken the oath of office a second time because a word was out of sequence when he was sworn in on Tuesday.
出于“高度谨慎认真”，奥巴马重新进行了就职宣誓，原因是周二就职宣誓时，念错了一个词的顺序。
A pencil is also named after a Latin word, but this time the word means "paintbrush."
pencil同样来自一个拉丁词。但这个拉丁词的意思是画笔。
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
因为所应许的话是这样说，到明年这时候我要来，撒拉必生一个儿子。
That was actually the third time the newspaper used the word "cure" in the headline of an article about insulin's discovery.
事实上，这已经是报纸上第三次，在关于发现胰岛素的文章标题里运用了“治愈”这个词。
And because I will have deliberately used the word "sleep" each time, he will, in time, start copying that, too.
并且由于我每次都会刻意地说出睡觉这个词，慢慢地，他也会模仿着说。
There was a time when people bought portable word processors because computers were too expensive and all they wanted was something to write with.
以前有一段时间，由于电脑太昂贵，一些只想处理文字的消费者便选择购买了便携打字机。
This explanation often involves Andrew Jackson again, but this time the word was adopted from the Indian language not because it was orthographi-cally-changed.
这一说法常常又涉及到安德鲁·杰克逊，但这一词来自印第安语，并不是因为拼写上的改变。
Most of the time, when a computer user hears the word "cache," he thinks of a browser's cache.
在大多数情况下，当计算机用户听到“缓存”一词时，都会想到浏览器的缓存。
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