时态

He promised not to tell anyone else about it. To treat comrades like enemies is to go over to the side of the enemy. The manager announced his intention to retire. The old man walked slowly on the ice in order not to fall down.

作状语 不定式中的动词仍然具有动词的特性，可以有自己的宾语和状语，另外虽然动词不定式在语法上没有表面上的主语，但它所表达的意义是动作，这一动作的执行者就是该动词的逻辑主语，动词不定式要和它的逻辑主语在语态和时态上保持一致。

It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time.

1这句话的时态为过去将来时。

It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time.

再过20分钟，大钟将敲响12下。（1）这句话的时态为过去将来时。

He boasted that he had gone walking for the good of his health.

顺便提一下，所有的问题都是用过去时态写的。

From the view of history, capacity of counter-culture diffuses and trajectory of counter-culture moving is in abnormal order.

从历时态角度看，反文化还进一步表现为外延量的扩大和运行轨迹的畸形有序化。

My brother has never been abroad before, so he is fending this trip very exciting.

before在句子后是副词，译为&在此之前&，是现在完成时态的标志

At the phonological level, foregrounding is fulfilled through the reoccurrence of the identical sound. Nonce-formations, abbreviations, blends and sense-shift attain lexical foregrounding, and the frequent use of the shorts words and numbers also functions. At the syntactic level, foregrounded features are embodied in the frequent use of active voice and quotations, and also the peculiar use of the tenses. Foregrounding at the semantic level principally turns up in the news headlines. It is the use of metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy and pun that helps to bring the potential of the linguistic elements into full play.

从语相层来看，体育新闻报道通过对标点符号的特殊使用、拼写的变异以及排版方式来实现前景化；从音位层来看，前景化靠对同一音素的复现来实现；从词汇层来看，新词的创造、词汇的缩略、混成及旧词新义等实现了对常规语言的偏离，此外，频繁使用短小词和数字也将报道推向前景；句法层上，体育新闻报道则通过对主动语态、引语等的频繁使用和时态的特殊用法来实现前景化；语义层的前景化主要集中在新闻标题中暗喻、提喻、转喻及双关等的使用。

This book challenges them to use different tenses at the same time and make their English more fluent.

这本书要求学生们在同一时间运用不同的时态进行对话，使他们的口语更加流利。

In palls of brightness, patens growing and gone

大家能发现我在还原的过程中没有时态概念，过去时都成了一般现在时，一方面说明我英语基本功较差，可这何尝不是一种文化现象？

But don't forget that when you use it in the past tense, pig out should be pigged out.

L：那是过去时态，要是说你……

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。