3. 和一般過去時連用

■席玉虎主編《英語常用詞用法詳解大詞典》(A-M)(商務(wù)印書館國際有限公司 2007年6月北京第1版)p903: He was in the pubblic  eyes these days.他進來極為公眾所關(guān)注。　　

■張道真編著《現(xiàn)代英語用法詞典》(外語教學(xué)與研究出版社1994年10月第1版)p305: Did any young people care these days about anything old people said to them?　　

The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORAY AMERICAN ENGLISH (1990-2011) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University) http://www.americancorpus.org/ ：　　

1990 She never ate anything these days.　　

1992 A lot of women carried them these days　　

1994 He was all she spoke of these days.　　

1995 Polly was no expert, but as far as she knew, no one wore ribbons these days.　　

1996 …, I know very few people named Washington these days.　　

1998 Half the guys in Casey's classes wore earrings these days.　　

1999 She always felt chilled these days, had for the past year.　　

2004 She slept little these days.　　

2006 He offered his hand-something he disliked doing these days.　　

2009 What gets kids riled up these days? Oh, I know. Money!　　

2009 I barely saw Ethan these days as it was.　　

2010 She even seemed taller these days.　　

2010 She smiled more these days than when they'd first met.　　

■BUY-BNC BRTISH NATIONAL CORPUS (UK,1980s-1993) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University ) http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/：　　

Very few married men wore rings these days .　　

A process which went slowly these days .　　

When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home,  …　　

He didn't think she threw knives these days and mercifully she hadn't sung " The Cowboys' Christmas party " since their time in Chelsea.　　

Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine, a wine snob even, the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth, but in those days it was plonk he wanted.　　

It seemed that these days his friends needed an excuse to blow the family money on their own pleasure; it had to be in a good cause.　　

She shivered, even though it was hot, and fancied death and disaster lurked everywhere these days .　　

She loomed large these days , as in the weeks after the funeral. Her airy presence filled the house.　　

Neither of them looked happy these days .　　

No longer did MPs defer to the Speaker, grant courtesy titles or bow when they left ; these days it was the loudest voice that got a hearing.　　

His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield.　　

Maisie was the only person to whom Henry ever talked these days .　　

She hoped so; Mama rarely laughed these days .　　

It was the sort of thing that happened these days .　　

從以上英美語真實的例證，可以看出：these days除了和一般現(xiàn)在時與現(xiàn)在進行時連用之外，還可以和現(xiàn)在完成時、現(xiàn)在完成行時及一般過去時連用，尤其經(jīng)常和一般過去時連用。　　

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