就好像科琳已经死了似的：他们当时在用过去时态谈起她。

It was as though Corinne was already dead: they were speaking of her in the past tense.

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为了方便起见，我们把时态改一下。

Let us change the tense for convenience.

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尽管有时你可能用错单词或时态，但这并不重要。

Even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, it doesn't matter.

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Present participles in general in Areopagitica being probably the most important form of speech, the act of gathering him may be more pleasurable, more desirable, than actually having him fully reconstituted.

大体上，现在分词在《论出版自由》中演讲的最,主要的时态形式，收集他的行为可能比,拥有真正再拼凑起的他更让人满足，更让人有欲望。

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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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Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

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