几天来

幾天來
jǐtiānlái
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 over the past few days
  2. 2 for the past few days
  3. 3 in the last several days

Examples

Jǐ tiān lái, tā yìzhí zài jiābān.
Over the past few days, he has been working overtime.
Jǐ tiān lái de liánxù jiàngyǔ zàochéng le shuǐzāi.
Several days of continuous rain caused flooding.

Tips

grammar
X (lái, since/over) attaches to time spans: (over the past few years), 多年来 (over many years), 长期以来 (long-term). 几天来 is the few-days variant — common as a sentence opener in news writing.

Stroke Order

tiān
lái