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adv.以前的,以往的

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ago


/ə'gəʊ; ə`ˇo/
adv (used after the word or phrase it modifies, esp with the simple past tense, not with the perfect tense 用于其所修饰的词语之後, 尤与简单过去时态连用而不与完成时态连用) gone by; in the past 前; 以前
*ten years ago 十年前
* not long ago 不久以前
* It happened a few minutes ago. 那是几分钟以前发生的事.
* How long ago is it that you last saw her? 你上一次看见她是多久以前的事?
* It was seven years ago that my brother died. 我哥哥是七年前死的. =>Usage at recent 用法见recent.

ago


adv
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: From the past participle of ago 'to pass away' (11-17 centuries), from Old English agan, from gan 'to go']
used to show how far back in the past something happened
5 minutes/an hour/20 years etc ago
 Her husband died 14 years ago.
long ago/a long time ago
 He should have finished at university long ago, but he kept taking extra courses.
a minute/moment ago
 The little girl you saw a moment ago was my niece.
a little/short while ago
 Tom got a letter from him just a little while ago.
 They moved to a new house some time ago (=a fairly long time ago) .
 We had our bicentenary celebrations not that long ago.
WORD CHOICE: ago, before, previously
Use ago to say how much time has passed from the time something happened to now, the time of speaking : I saw her a few minutes ago. |We went to Madrid two years ago.
Use before to say how much time passed from the time something happened to a time in the past : We went back to the same hotel where we had stayed two years before.
Previously is used in the same way, but is more formal : The meeting was a follow-up to one that had been held four days previously.
GRAMMAR
!! Do not use a preposition ('at', 'in', 'on' etc) before a phrase with ago : They first met fifteen years ago (NOT at/in fifteen years ago).
!! Do not use 'since' or 'before' with ago : I came to the USA two months ago (NOT since/before two months ago).
!! Use the past tense, not the present perfect, with ago : I started (NOT I've started) a new job a few weeks ago.

1. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百多年前,拳击比赛在英国是非常盛行的。

2. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百多年前,拳击比赛在英国是非常盛行的。

3. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten.
    但是,和我们相似的原始人生活的年代太久远了,因此,有关他们的传说既使有如今也失传了。

4. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百年前,拳击比赛在英国非常盛行。

5. But sometimes she would sit by the window and think of the evening long ago.
    但有时她会坐在窗前,回想一下很久以前的那个夜晚。

6. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.
    我们从书籍中可读到5,000年前近东发生的事情,那里的人最早学会了写字。

7. It is even more remarkable that as long ago as the 1960s, an Englishman, Leon Bagrit, was able to predict some of the uses of computers which we know today.
    就更觉得英国人莱昂.巴格瑞特有着非凡的能力。他在60年代就能预言我们今天知道的计算机的一些用途。

8. When a light passenger plane flew off course some time ago, it crashed in the mountains and its pilot was killed.
    不久前,一架轻型客机偏离了航线,在山区坠毁,飞行员丧生。

9. We had some shoes like those a month ago,
    一个月前我们有这要的鞋。

10. When a Greek philosopher said 2,000 years ago that it isn't events that matter but our opinion of them, this is what he was talking about.
    2,000年前的一位希腊哲学家说过,重要的不是事件本身,而是我们对事件的看法,他说的正是此意。

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