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千金難買早知道 政治大學外文中心講師 September 11, 2009 九月中旬，會有二十幾萬新鮮人，於全國一百六十五所大學中，展開他們成年人生中的第一次大冒險。同樣在校園裡的，還有七十萬學長姐，整裝待發，即將進入更精采刺激的大冒險第二季、第三季，和第四季。對於過往，他們有著許多「早知道……的遺憾」，想分享給學弟妹們。經常我們把時態和時間緊緊地聯想在一起，但時態能代表的，可不僅僅是時間。有沒有想過
“過去完成式”可以幫你表達對已發生過的事件的遺憾﹗ I wish I had known_ how eating
could be such a big problem. how to
manage time and money. how to
manage the enormous amount of freedom. how to
organize all the imposed independence. how to
balance my social life with my schoolwork. how to
handle the lack of privacy in the dorm. how to
motivate myself into getting up in the morning to go to boring lectures. how to read
certain texts without falling asleep. how much
work I would be expected to do. how much
alcohol people would consume. how
much I would miss my old friends. how
much I would sometimes miss home. how
much more time I could spend hanging out on the Internet. how
easy it could be to skip classes. how
costly and time-consuming it could be to have a girlfriend/boyfriend. how
so quickly the semesters could go. Grammar Review The verb wish is often used to express impossibility or improbability. A. Present and future wishes are expressed by using simple
past forms of verbs. Present
wish: I wish I were with you now. (I
am not with you now.) Future wish: I wish you would reconsider giving me a loan. (You will not give me a loan.) B. Past wishes are expressed by using past perfect forms of
verbs. Past wish: I wish I had not made that
phone call. (I
made that phone call.) |