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Dates 日期 In English, we can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day: 你可以先说日期也可以先说月份： The first of January / January the first. Remember to use ordinal numbers for dates in English. 记得在说日期时要使用序数词。 (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，你可以把四个数字分成两部分来说： 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，(英式英语中)你要说"two thousand and ..."： 2001 = two thousand and one 2009 = two thousand and nine Large numbers 大数目 Divide the number into units of hundreds and thousands: 将数字分成百位和千位： 400,000 = four hundred thousand (no s plural) If the number includes a smaller number, use "and" in British English: (英式英语中)如果数字不是整数，你需要加上"and"： 450,000 = four hundred and fifty thousand | 
