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The expression can be used every time that one thinks another doesn't take their necessary efforts to achieve something as if saying: you can't make it because you haven't eaten your meal so you don't have that energy.
It can be used as a hurry-up to urge someone to put more energy/effort on something.
It can be a blame, ironic, etc depending on how you use ...
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It means the coach thinks the players are not energetic enough as if they were hungry.
This sentence can only be used in some situations:
a coach blames the players being not energetic enough
an officer blames the soldiers being not powerful enough
fighter ridicule the opponent being so weak
or similar. Always considered as a blaming or ridiculing.
If you ...
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You could use 要 or 該 to represent "Time to A".
Time to sleep:
要睡覺了
該睡覺了
Time to leave here or go to somewhere:
該走了
要走了
In certain contexts, 去 also means "Time to A". E.g 去睡覺 去洗澡
But 該走了 can't use 去 to replace 該. 去走了 is incorrect.
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I think you can go with 该。
Time to go!
该走了！
Time to die! (Shades of Blade Runner!)
该死了！
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I don't think there's a fixed expression to reliably translate "time to X".
According to the context, there's a few ways to go about it, that I can think of right now.
Broader actions
When X is broad in scope, and the "time" period you are talking about doesn't mean necessarily right now, you can use 时刻. It often translates to "the ...
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Axel Tong answered A而B之 perfectly. I would address some other idiom structures not mentioned in the question
Becky 李蓓 wrote:
Note that x而y之 is just one example, and there are others like 千x万y
[(adjective A) + (noun A) + (adjective B) + (noun B)] / Example: 千丝万缕，如狼似虎
[(adverb A) + (adjective A) + (adverb B) + (adjective B)] / Example: 穷凶极恶，巨奸大恶
[adverb A] ...
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It seems that there are two types of 成语 represented by the same “structure”.
A而B之 could mean “action + action, done to something (third person pronoun)”.
取而代之 means “to take and replace 之 (something that was previously mentioned)”. Compare this to 取代, which simply means “replace”. You could consider 取而代之 a literary form of 取代; using it adds elegance to an ...
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