and

1. CONJ You use and to link two or more words, groups, or clauses. 和; 并且

When he returned, she and Simon had already gone. 当他回来时，她和西蒙已经走了。

I'm going to write good jokes and become a good comedian. 我要创作出好的笑话并且成为一个优秀的喜剧演员。

2. CONJ You use and to link two words or phrases that are the same in order to emphasize the degree of something, or to suggest that something continues or increases over a period of time. 用于强调程度，或者表示某事持续或增长了一段时间[强调]

Learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older. 当我们年纪越大，学习就变得越来越困难。

We talked for hours and hours. 我们谈了好多个小时。

3. CONJ You use and to link two statements about events when one of the events follows the other. 然后

I waved goodbye and went down the stone harbour steps. 我挥手告别，然后走下了港口的石头台阶。

4. CONJ You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement. (表示延续上个陈述的意思) 而

You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough. 这种疾病的影响只有在长期内才能真正看清楚，而5年是不够长的。

5. CONJ You use and to link two clauses when the second clause is a result of the first clause. 结果

All through yesterday crowds have been arriving and by midnight thousands of people packed the square. 昨天一整天人们一直不断地到达，结果到午夜的时候成千上万的人挤满了这个广场。

6. CONJ You use and to interrupt yourself in order to make a comment on what you are saying. (表示对自己的话加以评价) 而且

Danielle was among the last to find out, and as often happens, too, she learned of it only by chance. 丹妮尔是最后一个才知道的人之一，而且同往常一样，她也只是偶然听到的。

7. CONJ You use and at the beginning of a sentence to introduce something else that you want to add to what you have just said. Some people think that starting a sentence with and is ungrammatical, but it is now quite common in both spoken and written English. 此外

Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travellers are the ones who go to those locations. 通勤航空公司飞往偏僻的地方。此外，商务旅客就是去那些地方的人。

8. CONJ You use and to introduce a question that follows logically from what someone has just said. 那么

"He used to be so handsome."—"And now?"

“他过去曾经那么英俊。”—“那么现在呢？”

9. CONJ And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned. 接下来

And now the drought in Sudan. 现在接下来是关于苏丹的干旱。

10. CONJ You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together. 加

What does two and two make?

2加2是多少？

11. CONJ And is used before a fraction that comes after a whole number. 用于连接整数后的分数

McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam. 麦凯恩在越南的一所战俘营里度过了五年半。

12. CONJ You use and in numbers larger than one hundred, after the words "hundred" or "thousand" and before other numbers. 用于大于100的数字，在百位或千位数和紧跟的数之间

We printed two hundred and fifty invitations. 我们印了250份请柬。