又有重大发现! 自上次看了郑欣宣的英文blog，发现她那句” If it weren’t  for my godparents…”后，一直非常关注if的英语说法。前几天在成龙大哥的Rush Hour 1里又有新发现，来开片……

Inspector Lee : Sir, if you were asking for fifty million dollars…(长官，如果你要索取五千万美金……) <>, 约40分30秒之处。

这是属于second conditional，即表达假设状况的如果。在此片段里，真实状况是：”你没索求五千万美金/You are not asking for fifty million dollars”，转换成假设的如果，必须用are的过去式were，即由present continuous tense换成past continuous tense。接下来大哥说 ：”你会身在这种地方吗?” “会”是will吗? 即然是假设的如果，就必须用will的过去式would，再看以下截图。

再举几个类似例子：

1.     If you were asking Mary to marry you, would you give her a diamond ring. (如果你要向玛丽求婚，你会送她钻石戒子吗?)

2.     If you were going on vacation, where would you go?

(如果你要去旅游，你会去哪儿?)

3.     If you were dying in three days, what would you do?

(如果你三天后就要死去，你会怎么办?)

讲完收工。

图文/江学聪 (以看英语片DVD学英语为终生职志的马来西亚男)

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