英语口语练习素材——介词+month的常用搭配

一提起练习英语口语，很多人不知从何练起，经常理不出头绪。比如我们要练习单词month和介词搭配的用法，可以树读并背诵下面的句子，着重记忆标注红色的那些短语，下次自己在说英语时，直接把这些短语拿来用即可。

about a month ago, i was asked to be a speaker for a virtual conference.
大约一个月前，我被邀请在一个虚拟会议上发言。

for the first half of 2008 those

costs were up 40% from 12 months before.
2008年上半年，这些成本较12个月前上涨了40%。

the device was only on sale for about a month before the end of the fourth quarter.?
这款手机在第四季度结束前只销售了一个月左右。

it was decided to discontinue the treatment after three months.
三个月后决定停止治疗。

so day after day and month after month, connie stayed by his bedside.
于是，一天又一天，一月又一月，康妮守在他的床边。

smart meters will allow you to actually monitor how much energy your family is using by the month, by the week, by the day, or even by the hour.
智能电表可以让你实际监测你的家庭按月、按周、按天、甚至按小时消耗多少能源。

consumers buckled beneath underwater mortgages and foreclosure rates and unemployment rates seemed to accelerate month by month.
消费者被资不抵债和丧失抵押品赎回权的比率压得喘不过气来，失业率似乎逐月上升。

however, adp reported that the private sector job market expanded during the month of february.
然而，adp报告称，私营部门就业市场在2月份有所扩张。

this morning, we

learned that our businesses created 172,000 new jobs in the month of july.
今天上午，我们了解到我们的企业在7月份创造了17.2万个新就业岗位。

the ship will not be ready for a month.
这艘船要一个月才能准备好。

i havent seen hide nor hair of her for a month.?
我已经一个月不见她的踪影了。

the dispute has dragged on for months.?
争论已经拖了好几个月了。

individual rates that were set in 2001 are due to rise in a month.
2001年制定的个人利率将在一个月内上升。

the president will give his state-of-the-union message in a months time.
总统将在一个月后发表国情咨文。

she stayed in lagos for over a month.
她在拉各斯待了一个多月。

he was arrested in under two months.
不到两个月，他就被捕了。

captain yates has been living aboard the station for just under six months.
耶茨舰长在空间站上生活了不到六个月。

an average electric bill might go up $2 or $3 per month.
每个月的平均电费可能会增加2到3美元。

she lost 16 pounds in the first month of her diet.
她节食的第一个月减掉了16磅。

which brings us to the fourth-to-last monday in the last

month of the year.
这就引出了今年最后一个月的倒数第四个星期一。

he said that it is typical to see seasonally high demand in the month of january.
他说，1月份通常会出现季节性的高需求。

jobs anticipated return to the apple office is at the end of this month.?
乔布斯预计将于本月底重返苹果办公室。

the company closed its virtual gift store at the beginning of this month.
该公司在本月初关闭了虚拟礼品店。

luxury buyers were looking for the newest fashions with sales of the new bmw 3 series, introduced in the middle of the month, taking off like a shot, pushing bmw ahead of mercedes-benz for luxury car leadership.
在本月中旬推出的新款宝马3系销售火爆，使宝马在豪华车市场上领先于梅赛德斯-奔驰(mercedes-benz)，豪车买家正在寻找最新的时尚。