现在进行时有时可表示一个经常性动作,这时都表现某类情绪
1)You’re always leaving your clothes on the floor!
你老把衣服扔在地上!(责备)
2)My father is always losing his car keys.
我爸老丢车钥匙。 (不满)
3)She is always thinking of her
work.她老想到她的工作。(赞许)
4)He is always boasting. 他老爱说大话。 (厌恶)
5)Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or
another but he has never managed to get enough money to have the
church clock repaired.(不满)
这类句子常带有always, constantly, forever, continually, perpetually
这类副词,显出强调或夸张的意思。如果改成一般现在时,就只是说明事实,而不表示情绪。
《双城记》
`Upon my soul, I
am not sure that it was not yours. You were always driving and
riving and shouldering and pressing, to that restless degree
that I had no chance for my life but in rust and repose. It's a
gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's Own past, with the day
breaking. Turn me in some other direction before I go.'
(A Tale of Two
cities)
`All sorts of people who are
not in the least degree worthy of the pet, are always turning up,' said Miss
Pross. (A Tale of Two cities)
In the meantime,
it is always
preparing, though it is not seen or heard. That
is your consolation. Keep it.'
`I tell thee,' said madame,
extending her right hand, for emphasis, `that although it is a long
time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it
never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always
advancing.
《傲慢与偏见》
But you are
always giving her the preference.''
She could not
imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his
arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be
always flying about from one place to another, and never
settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.
``And then you
have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying
books.''
She could not
help frequently glancing her eye at Mr. Darcy, though every glance
convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always
looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was
invariably fixed by her.
My father was
not only fond of this young man's society, whose manners were
always engaging; he had also the highest opinion of him, and hoping
the church would be his profession, intended to provide for him in
it.
What can he mean
by being so tiresome as to be always coming here?
Elizabeth could hardly help
laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her
mother should be always giving him such an epithet.
``My beauty you
had early withstood, and as for my manners -- my behaviour to
you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I
never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than
not.
You were
disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and
thinking for your approbation alone.
They were always
moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation, and
always spending more than they ought.
《简爱》
Why was I
always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever
condemned?
It was Miss Reed that found them
out: I believe she was envious; and now she and her sister lead a
cat and dog life together; they are always quarrelling.'
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