2024-08-14
15 分钟In this episode, you'll learn essential phrases related to talking about time, which are crucial for daily conversations. Understanding these natural English collocations will help you improve your English fluency and allow you to speak more naturally, just like a native speaker. By learning collocations, you'll start speaking English more quickly because these word combinations sound natural to native speakers.This lesson is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their conversational English ...
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And in this particular lesson, we're going to take a look at some collocations.
This is an advanced english lesson dealing with verb verb collocations all connected with time.
As always, I'm going to go down through the list with you.
I have twelve, okay, twelve related time related collocations.
And I'll give you an example as to when you might use them.
Number one, allocate to allocate time.
Well, we allocate time means we give over a certain amount of time to some activity.
We should allocate time every day for ourselves.
Might be to do some reading, might some relaxation, some yoga, some exercise, whatever it is.
We allocate time.
We dedicate a certain amount of time in our day for ourselves to allocate time.
Number two, to be pressed for to be pressed for time.
To be pressed for time means not to have a lot of time.
Not to have time to do something you'd really like to do.