英语是一种词汇十分丰富的语言。同一个意思往往可以用多种不同的方法来表示。如汉语里表时间概念“…之后”,在英语里就有多种的表示法。现择其常见者介绍如下。一、用介词短语“in...’s time”表示,如:It’ll be finished in about three week’s time.大约过三周后将完成该工作。We shall have more machines in a year.一年后我们将得到更多的机器。 English is a very rich language. The same meaning can often be expressed in many different ways. For example, in Chinese, the concept of watch time “... after” has a variety of representations in English. The common ones are described below. First, use the prepositional phrase “in...’s time” to say, such as: It’ll be finished in about three weeks’s time. The work will be completed in about three weeks. We shall have more machines in a year. We will get more machines in one year.