Maybe we can go together sometime.
本句源于2021年新高考考试英语全国卷I(全国乙卷)的听力录音原文。
请老师剖析一下 sometime, sometimes, some time有什么区别。
全段对话:
W: Are you a football fan, Gomez?
M: Yes, I go to the stadium whenever there’s agood game. And if I can’t get a ticket, I watched the game on TV. That way theyare less exciting, though.
W: Is the ticket expensive?
M: It depends. It usually cosplayts about twenty tofifty dollars. Last time I paid twenty-five.
W: That’s not very expensive. Maybe we can go together sometime.
M: Great. It’ll be more fun to watch the gamewith a friend.
▲sometime:用作副词时,意思是“某个时候或时刻”,可用于过去或以后,即既可过去某个时候或时刻,也可指以后某个时候或时刻。如:
Weshould get together sometime. 大家应该找个日子聚一下。
Aburglar broke in sometime during the night. 窃贼在夜间某个时刻入室行窃。
另外,sometime 还可用作形容词,表示“以前的”“过去的”“有时的”“偶尔的”。如:
Sir Richard Marsh, the sometimechairman of British Rail 理查德·马什爵士,英国铁路公司前董事长
Grimm, a sometime delivery driver,lives with his elderly mother. 格里姆,有时送送货的一名司机,和他年迈的妈妈住在一块。
▲sometimes:只用作副词,意思是“有时”,应该是大伙比较熟知的使用方法。如:
Sometimes I go by car. 有时我坐车去。
He sometimes writes to me. 他偶尔给我写封信。
I like to be on my own sometimes. 有时我喜欢一个人待着。
▲some time:它一般是一个名词词组,意思是“一些时间”,也就是“一段时间”的意思,你可以联想some money, some space, some advice, some information 等,它们属相同种类使用方法,只是它长得与sometime, sometimes 有点像,就容易弄混了。例句如:
I haven’t seen him for some time. 我有一段时间没见他了。
Andy and Tom talked for some time.安迪和汤姆谈了好些时候。
We've been waiting here for sometime already. 大家已经在这儿等了些时候了。
▲特别提醒:值得注意的是,在英国英语中, sometime 用作副词时也可以写作sometime。也就是说,在英国英语中,some time 也可用作副词,表示“某个时候或时刻”,此时可与 sometime替换。参见: