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

So if you archive it, that's maybe a little hint that either this is just your habit or perhaps that you might actually care about this later in the future, whereas if you delete it, no, you really don't care. Yeah.

如果你把邮件存档，可能暗示这可能,是你的习惯,或者以后还会用到它，相反，如果你删除了它，说明你可能根本不在意这个邮件。

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We also have a group at Dell whose only job is to focus on things that are 18 months or greater in the future.

戴尔还有一个团队，他们唯一的工作是,专注于十八个月后发生的事情。

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But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于,他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的,但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

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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。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It says that the forward rate, which you can compute from today's newspaper or from today's website--you can compute the forward rates for all future dates.

这些告诉我们,人们可以从今天的报纸,或网上的信息中计算出,未来任意时刻的远期利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As we do these little clicker poll things you can tell me if you find it helpful or not, then we can decide how to continue --whether to continue them in the future.

我们用表决器做这个小测试的同时,大家可以告诉我你们觉得这有没有帮助,然后我们再决定以后是否继续用

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They've clustered books Genesis through Esther,which tell of things past; the books of Job through the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon contain wisdom that applies to the present;and then the prophetic books, Isaiah to Malachi, contain or tell of things future.

创世纪》从《以斯帖记》开始讲过去;,《约伯记》从雅歌也叫所罗门之歌开始,讲现世可以运用的智慧，然后是《先知书》,从《以塞亚记》到《玛拉基书》，讲述未来的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So in the future, when you power up a terminal, a laptop, a PC, a netbook, or a cellphone, immediately, instantly, you see a box.

在未来，当你打开一个终端时，比如笔记本电脑，PC机，上网本，手机，马上就能看到一个搜索框。

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There will be to express the future existence or an anticipated existence of something.

here will be 来表示某些事物在将来会存在或在预期中会存在。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Was it going to be in the future or did it take place earlier today?

它是以后才做还是今天早些已经做了？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.

或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了

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