最近美国总统拜登闹了个乌龙,他在一次演讲中说道:
"My mother drove us rather than us being able to walk and guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening? You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation."
拜登在这段话中提到 “I ...... have cancer” 他用的时态是一般现在时态,这表示他现在,此时,是个癌症患者。他的这段话在美国引起巨大震动。很快他的助手们出来澄清拜登只是口误,他其实只是以前得过皮肤癌,已经被治愈了。
所以如果不口误的话,拜登应该说 "I ...... had cancer". 他应该用一般过去时的。
各位同学要注意:
一般过去时用来表达过去的状态或过去发生的事情。
一般现在时用来表达现在的状态或现在发生的事情。