新概念英语惯用词Lesson71：

1.time n. 时间;时光;点钟;期间;经历按次序来;准时地;暂停 v. 测定…的时间;记录…时间;计时;定时

kill time 消磨时光(spend time in a leisure way; not doing anything useful)

例句:

I'm just killing time. Traffic was unusually light, so I came a bit too early.

我正在打发时间。路上的车少得很，所以我来得早了一点儿。

Gosh, what can we do to kill the next lO hours?

天啊，怎样才能消磨掉以后的这10个钟头呢?

in the nick of time 在最后一刻;刚好;在关键时刻

例句：I caught my plane of the nick of time.

我在最后一刻赶上了飞机。

as time (days,years) goes by 随着时间流逝(with the time passing)

例句：As years go by, Arbor Day has become one of the major holidays in America.

随着时间流逝，植树节已经成为美国的主要节日之一。

typing v. 打字 n. 类型;样式;型;标志

typing errors 打印错误(对照typos排版错误)

例句：Beth proofread her paper and corrected the typing errors.

贝思校对了她的论文，纠正了打印错误。

bus n. 公共汽车，巴士

bus fare 公共汽车票钱(fare指车费，火车票钱可以说train fare; 出租车费可以说taxi fare; 飞机票钱则是air fare)