Examples:
“
In six months,
I m going to leave China and go home to work as an engineer。”
“
Mary hopes to be rich and married with kids in twenty years。”
(
on the phone)“
I`
m going to leave my apartment in ten minutes。
It takes twenty minutes to get to your apartment by bike,
so I`
ll probably get to your apartment in half an hour。”
“
The sun will blow up and engulf the earth in about 100
million years。”
再看“
before”:
Now let`
s look at “
before”:
我两周前买了这本书。
Incorrect English:
“
I bought this book two weeks before。”
Correct English:
“
I bought this book two weeks ago。”
解释:
要表达“从现在开始的某段时间以前”,我们必须用“某段时间+
ago”形式,不能把“以前”译成“
before”,我们不能用“某段时间+
before”形式. 表达“现在开始的两周前”应说“
two weeks ago”. 在下面的例子,这种说法适用于任何长度的时间。
Explanation:
To express “(
a certain amount of time)
before now”
we have to say “(
a certain amount of time)
ago.”
We cannot just translate “以前”
as “
before. ”
We cannot say “(
a certain amount of time)
before.”
To express “
two weeks before now”
we say “
two weeks ago. ”
Notice in the following examples that this way of speaking can be used for very short,
very long,
and moderate lengths of time.
Examples:
“
Julie just left thirty seconds ago。
She is probably walking down the stairs.”
“
I cooked this rice three hours ago。
It`
s too cold to eat now.”
“
Ten years ago Ian graduated from Harvard University with a biology degree”.
“The dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.”
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