【now音标】 英[naʊ] 美[naʊ]
【单词释义】 now是什么意思：
adv.现在；目前；其时；立刻；（改变话题或要对方做某事前，引起对方注意）喂
adj.现在的；当今的；现任的
n.现在；目前；目前
conj.由于；既然
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【now形近词/近似词】
mow v. 刈,割（草）；修剪 n. 修剪，割；干草（谷物）堆
sow v.播（种） n.母猪
row n.行，排；划船 vt.划船；使…成排
tow vt.拖，拉；牵引；拖带；拖行 n.拖，拉；牵引；牵引绳，拖链
low adj.低的，矮小的 adv.低声地
how adv.怎样,如何；多少，多么
vow n.誓言，诺言；誓约 v.起誓，发誓；起誓
cow n.奶牛，母牛
bow n.鞠躬；弓；蝴蝶结 v.鞠躬;点头;（使）弯曲
【常用短语】
and now 那么；那么现在
by now 到目前为止；到如今
just now 刚才；眼下
now and then 不时地；常常
right now 就是现在，马上
up to now 至今;迄今;到目前为止
【单词例句】
◇ " I have a friend named xi xi, the last time to go to his house to have a lot of bread and butter, now there are a lot of, we got some come back to his home. "Everyone said happily:" ok, ok. "
“我有个朋友叫嘻嘻，上次去他家作客就有好多奶油面包，现在还有好多吧，我们去他家拿一些回来吧。”大家都高兴地说：“好啊，好啊。”
---- The Mouse That Wouldn't Eat Cheese
◇ Now when harvest time came the devil appeared and wanted to take away his crop, but he found nothing except the yellow withered leaves, and the happy peasant dug up his turnips.
现在收获的季节到了，魔鬼又来了，要求收回属於他的收成。但除了那些枯黄的败叶外，他一无所获；而农夫却在兴高采烈地挖着他的萝卜。
---- The Peasant and the Devil
◇ "Now," said the king, "whoever has the best wife will inherit the kingdom Here begin the tests" He gave them each some hemp to be spun and returned within three days, to see which betrothed was the best spinner.
国王说：“这样吧，谁的妻子最优秀，谁就能继承王位。现在我们就试试她们。”他给每个儿子分了一些麻，让他们的未婚妻在三天内纺出来，比比谁纺得更好。
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ Now, there once was an old man whom all the people called Kribble-Krabble, for that was his name. He always wanted the best of everything, and when he could not manage it otherwise, he did it by magic.
从前有一个老头儿，大家把他叫做克里布勒·克拉布勒，这就是他的名字。他总是希望在一切东西中抽出最好的东西来。当他没有办法达到目的时，他就要使用魔术了。
---- The Drop of Water
◇ Now on the way the messenger stopped at a brook to rest. Tired from his long journey, he fell asleep.
但送信人在路上的一条小溪边歇息。长途旅行累了，他睡着了。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ What could she do now? She wanted to rescue her brothers, but she had no key to the glass mountain.
怎么办呢？她要救哥哥，可又没有了玻璃山城堡的钥匙。
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ Now the villain went for a third time to the door, knocked at it, and said, "Open the door for me, children. Your dear mother has come home, and has brought every one of you something from the woods."
这个坏蛋第三次跑到山羊家，一面敲门一面说：“开门哪，孩子们。你们的好妈妈回来了，还从森林里给你们每个人带回来一些东西。”
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
大名鼎鼎的霍华德-凯利医生也参加了医疗方案的制定。当他听到病人来自的那个城镇的名字时，一个奇怪的念头霎时间闪过他的脑际。他马上起身直奔她的病房。
---- The warmth of a cup of milk
◇ Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary.
制造一台有效率的冰箱不像我们想象的那么简单。 19世纪早期，关于对冷藏科学至关重要的热物理知识是很浅陋的。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ That was ten years ago. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
那已经是十年前的事情了。现在我已经成为一名成功的商人。无论何时当我感到沮丧，回想到世界上的烦恼时，我就会想起那个小女孩以及她教给我的那堂不寻常的课。
---- World of Smiles