13 一般过去时态的基本用法 Track13
进一步详解:
用法1:常表示过去时间所发生的动作或存在的状态,常和过去特定的时间状语连用。这些时间状语有:yesterday,yesterday evening,last night,the night before last(前天晚上),last year,last spring(去年春天),three days/months/years ago等等。注意这些时间状语之前不需加介词,比如不能说:at last night*,in last year*,in three years ago*。
a. He was late for school this morning. 他今早上学迟到了。
b. I bought this computer three years ago. 我三年前买了这台电脑。
c. I was tired last night, so I went to bed early.
我昨晚很累,所以很早睡了。
用法2:表示过去某一段时间一直持续或反复发生的动作,此时可与表示频度的时间副词连用。
a. I lived in the country for ten years.
我在农村生活过十年。(我现在不在农村了。)
b. He used to do morning exercises.
他过去常常晨炼。(他现在不这么做了。)
c. She lived in our town for three years, but now she is living in Beijing. 她在我们镇上住了三年,但现在她住在北京。
d. He worked in that dot-com company for one year. Now he is studying in America.
他在那家网络公司工作过一年,现在在美国上学。
e. I wrote a letter once a week to my family when I was in my first college year. 在大一的时候我一星期给家里写一封信。