Israel's past and present and future generations form a collective entity, Israel, that collectively assents to the covenant.

犹太人的过去，现在，未来形成了一个共同的存在，全体犹太人都赞成这个契约。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

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The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

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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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And you'll use "If I were" to talk about yourself in the present in relationship to the past.

你可以用“If I were”来比较现在的你和过去的你。

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