Or patients might be advised to think less about the past and more about the present and the future.

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If you focus on some of the minutia of a site like this, you know, it's useful to be able to jump to a particular date whether in the future or in the past.

如果你关注像这样一个网站的一些细节，你会发现，若能跳转到,不论过去还是将来的一个特定日期，那将是很有用的。

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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。

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So can be changed slightly, depending on tense, past, present or future as well as whether or not you want to ask a question.

因此这个句型要根据不同的时态，如过去时、现在时和将来时，作出一点调整；另外也会根据是否是问句而略有不同。

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