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ago

/əˈɡəʊ//əˈɡəʊ/
★★★★★adv.

adv

  • ①[置于表时间的名词(词组)之后](距)…以前
    • a short time ago不久以前
    • a long time ago许久以前
    • two weeks ago yesterday [last Sunday]两周前的昨日[上上星期日]
    • How long ago was that?那是多久以前的事?
    • Five years ago, I went to Egypt.五年前我到埃及去。
    • She left five minutes ago.她五分钟之前离开。
    • That was years ago.那是多年以前的事。
  • ②[置于 long 之后]以前
    • All this happened (not) long ago.这一切都是很久 [不久]以前发生的。
    • long, long ago往昔

用法

(1)ago是以现在为基准所指的过去,故与简单过去式连用,而不能与完成式连用:

I saw him six months ago.

(2)以过去的某一时间为基准而提到在它之前的事情时,要用before;因此,直接引句用ago时,如改为间接引句,应换成before:

He said, "I saw him six months ago."

→He said that he had seen him six months before.

(3)下面的句子结构不能用since:

It is five years ago that [when] his father died.

(他父亲是在五年前去世的。)

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