Embodiments of the present application provide a method, a terminal, and a base station for transmitting information. In the embodiments of the present application, subframe configuration information of a first carrier is obtained, where the subframe configuration information is used to indicate a type-1 subframe of the first carrier and a type-2 subframe of the first carrier, the type-1 subframe is used for the base station to transmit, in system bandwidth, first information including a first CRS, the first CRS is used for demodulation, and the type-2 subframe is not used for the base station to transmit a CRS used for demodulation, so that the terminal can receive, according to the subframe configuration information and on the first carrier, information sent by the base station.