Their stories tell a lot about the past,present and future of professional soccer in America.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Use this pattern whenever you want to find out about the timing of an event in the past, present, or future.

当你想知道过去、现在或者未来某件事发生的时间时，你都可以使用这个句型。

When 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

live so much in the past that they are unable to face the present.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And you'll use "If I were" to talk about yourself in the present in relationship to the past.

你可以用“If I were”来比较现在的你和过去的你。

If I were 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人