since从句的用法(2)
学习啦在线学习网 4. 在it is+时间+since从句结构中,since从句是非延续性动词的一般过去时,含有肯定意味。
例如:
It is three years since her husband left her.
她丈夫离开她已经3年了。
It is over sixty years since the People’s Republic of China was established.
学习啦在线学习网 中华人民共和国已经成立60多年了。
学习啦在线学习网 5. 在it is+时间+since从句结构中,since从句是延续性动词的一般过去时,含有否定的意味。
例如:
学习啦在线学习网 It is three years since she stayed here.
学习啦在线学习网 她离开这里已经3年了。
How long is it since you were a league member?
你退团有多久了?
学习啦在线学习网 6. 在it is+时间+since从句结构中,since从句是现在完成时或过去完成时,均含有否定意味。
例如:
It is five years since we have seen her.
学习啦在线学习网 我们已经5年没有见她了。
学习啦在线学习网 It was years since I had seen her.
在那之前,我已经有好久没有见到她了。
学习啦在线学习网 It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you.
学习啦在线学习网 我已经很久没有见到你了。
另外,①根据英语惯用法,since从句不可以否定形式出现。
例如:
学习啦在线学习网 It is four years since I have smoked a cigarette. 我已经4年不抽烟了。
不可说:It is four years since I haven’t smoked a cigarette.
学习啦在线学习网 但由于下句中的since不作“自从”解,所以从句可以用否定形式。
例如:
I haven’t been out anywhere since I don’t know how long.
学习啦在线学习网 也不知多久了,我哪儿也没去过。
②Since从句通常不与非延续性动词的现在完成时的肯定式连用。
例如:
学习啦在线学习网 Her mother died when she was a child.
学习啦在线学习网 她小时候母亲就去世了。
不可说:Her mother has died since she was a child.
③Since前不可加表示时间的词语,但可以与ago连用。
例如:
学习啦在线学习网 She has lived with us since her mother died three years ago.
自从她母亲3年前去世,她就一直和我们住在一起。
不可说:She has lived with us three years since her mother died.
学习啦在线学习网 ④在It was five years ago since his father died. 一句中的since用错了,因为在含有ago的时间范畴里,已经有了从过去的一个时间点以来的时间,即已有了since的时间范畴,所以再用since是多余的。
改为:
学习啦在线学习网 It was five years ago that his father died.
他父亲5年前去世了。
学习啦在线学习网 It is five years since his father died.
他父亲去世已经5年了。