That sounds a lot more natural right? So, what does UP TO mean?
这听起是不是自然多了?那么, UP TO是什么意思呢?
The expression up to is a synonym of do. We use this in spoken English because as it’s more of an informal expression. When I greet someone with the question “what have you been up to? I am asking them what have they been DOING recently.
up to这个用法是do的同义词。我们在英文口语中使用它因为它是一个不正式的表达方法。当我用“what have you been up to?这种方式来问候别人时,我实际是在问他们最近在忙什么呢。
The question is in the present perfect continuous so you will answer with the verb in the continuous. For example:
这个问题是用现在完成进行时来提问的,所以回答时也用进行时态的这个动词。例如:
“Hey mate, what have you been up to?
“Ah, the same old, studying, surfing, going out, having some drinks with friends.
“Have you been playing guitar?
“yeah I’ve been playing a few times a week.
“You been watching the football?
“Nah, I don’t really like watching football.
You’ll notice that’s its very common for a native speaker to use the present perfect continuous like this when greeting a buddy. When a person greets me this way the conversation seems to flow a lot more, and it allows us to summarize all the recent news very quickly and concisely.
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