7 It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go…
8 …the children might play a trick on them.
9 Festivals can also be held to honour famous people.
1 Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather…
2 Sometimes celebrations would be held after hunters had caught animals.
3 At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find
e.g. The girl can dance very well. B. 表示说话的推测、事物的可能性等:
e.g. Can the news be true? C. 在口语中, can可以表示请求或允许:
e.g. Can I sit here?
can表示“能够”时与短语be able to同义, 但can只用于一般现在时或过去时,而后 者可用于各种时态。另外,can表示个人 有某种能力,而be able to表示某人通过 努力、克服困难做成某事,相当于 succeed in doing sth.;叙述过去事实时, 最好用was / were able to,因为could只表 示过去具有某种能力。
ability, advice, agreement, guessing, past habit, necessity, permission, possibility, prediction, promise, request