Use first-person, present-tense language: "I am making ___ dollars a year;"

用第一人称，现在进行时：“我每年赚多少美金；

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If a language has no future tense, for instance, its speakers would simply not be able to grasp our notion of future time.

譬如，如果一种语言没有表示未来时态这一概念，说话人理所当然地，就无法抓住未来时间的这一理念。

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In these tense times at home, it was Lincoln's language not of equality but of freedom that U.S. opinion-makers emphasized.

在那段紧张的时期，美国的舆论制造者着力强调林肯语言中的自由思想，而不是平等思想。

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Relations with Slovakia are tense, thanks to a badly drafted language law there and some silly politicking.

ECONOMIST: Europe.view