bythetime用法

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By the time 用法详解
?by the time意为“到……时候(为止)”,是一个介词短语,在句中经常起连词作用,
引导时间状语从句。它的主要用法如下:
?1. 如果从句中的谓语动词是一般过去时,那么主句中的谓语动词通常用过去完成
时,表示“截止到从句动作发生时,主句动作已经完成,即过去的过去”。例如:
By the time he returned home,the rain had stopped.
?By the time I got to the station,the train had already gone。
?2. 如果从句中的谓语动词为一般现在时/或现在完成时(表示将来),那么主句中的谓
语动词常为将来完成时,表示“截止到将来某一时间为止,主句动作将已经完成”。
By the time you get back,I shall have finished the work.
?By the time I graduate next year, I will have lived here for 5 years.
?By the time of next term , we will have learned 3000 words.
?3. 如果主句动作不强调已经完成,只是说明某个时候的状况,(主句是be的系表形式
或者是表示像know, find, believe等表示认知的持续性动词,则往往用一般时态,不用
完成时态。)此时主句不用完成时,而应根据实际需要选用适当的时态,此时by the
time相当于when。例如:
?He was out of breath by the time he reached the top.
By the time the bus came,so many people were waiting that it was a free fight to get on it.
公共汽车来的时候,等车的人很多,成了一场挤车的混战。
?By the time he went abroad, he was fourteen.出国那年他14岁。
?By the time the war was over , death and suffering were to be seen everywhere.
?在战争结束的时候,到处可见死亡和饥饿。这里没有“死亡和饥饿”已经完成的意思,
只是描述当时这个时间点的状况。所以用过去时。
?巩固练习:
?1. (2005天津卷)By the time Jane gets home,her aunt _____for London to attend a
meeting.
A. will leave B. leaves
?C. will have left D. left
?2. By the time you have finished this book, your meal ___ cold.(2012四川卷)
?A. gets B. has got C. will get D. is getting
?3. (2009北京卷)When I talked with my grandma on the phone,she sounded weak,
but by the time we _____ up,her voice had been full of life.
A. were hanging B. had hung
?C. hung D. would hang
?4. ―Did you see Xiao Li at the party?
―No,_____by the time I arrived.
A. she’d left B. she’s left
?C. she was left D. she must leave
5. By the time I saw the angry expression on his face,I_____ what I had to face.
A. knew B. have known

?C. would know D. had known
6.(2008四川卷)The telephone_____,but by the time I got indoors,it stopped.
A. had rung B. was ringing C. rings D. has rung
?7.(2008山东卷)By the time he realizes he _____into a trap,it’ll be too late for him
to do anything about it.
A. walks B. walked C. has walked D. had walked