Dates 日期
In English, we can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day:
你可以先說(shuō)日期也可以先說(shuō)月份：
The first of January / January the first.
Remember to use ordinal numbers for dates in English.
記得在說(shuō)日期時(shí)要使用序數(shù)詞。
(The first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the twenty-second, the thirty-first etc.)
Years 年份
For years up until 2000, separate the four numbers into two pairs of two:
在2000年之前的年份，你可以把四個(gè)數(shù)字分成兩部分來(lái)說(shuō)：
1965 = nineteen sixty-five
1871 = eighteen seventy-one
1999 = nineteen ninety-nine
For this decade, you need to say "two thousand and ..." when speaking British English:
2000年之后的年份，(英式英語(yǔ)中)你要說(shuō)"two thousand and ..."：
2001 = two thousand and one
2009 = two thousand and nine
Large numbers 大數(shù)目
Divide the number into units of hundreds and thousands:
將數(shù)字分成百位和千位：
400,000 = four hundred thousand (no s plural)
If the number includes a smaller number, use "and" in British English:
(英式英語(yǔ)中)如果數(shù)字不是整數(shù)，你需要加上"and"：
450,000 = four hundred and fifty thousand
400,360 = four hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty
Fractions, ratios and percentages 分?jǐn)?shù)，比例，百分比
1/2 = one half
1/3 = one third
1/4 = one quarter
1/5 = one fifth
1/6 = one sixth etc
3/5 = three fifths
1.5% = one point five percent
0.3% = nought / zero point three percent
2:1 = two to one
Saying 0 如何說(shuō)數(shù)字0?
Depending on the context, we can pronounce zero in different ways:
根據(jù)語(yǔ)境的不同，我們有很多種說(shuō)法來(lái)表達(dá)數(shù)字0：
2-0 (football) = Two nil
30 – 0 (tennis) = Thirty love
604 7721 (phone number) = six oh four…
0.4 (a number) = nought point four / zero point four
0℃ (temperature) = zero degrees
Talking about calculations in English 如何用英語(yǔ)表示算術(shù)
+ (plus)
2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals three)
- (minus / take away)
5 – 3 = 2 (five minus three equals two / five take away three equals two)
x (multiplied by / times)
2 x 3 = 6 (two multiplied by three equals six / two times three equals six)
/ (divided by)
6 / 3 = 2 (six divided by three equals two)
