It is (high) time后接简单过去式,表示早该是...的时候了。
It is (high) time that I left.
我早该走了。
在假设语气结构里有时可以省略副词子句,条件一般暗含在片语或上下文里。
Alone by myself, I wouldn't have been delighted.
如果我单独一个人我是不会感到愉快的。
假设语气中的副词子句可以省略连接词if,此子句中的助动词had, were, should等要移至主语之前。
Were I Jane, I would be very pleased to marry you.
如果我是珍,我会很高兴嫁给你。
would that相当于how I wish。
Would that Jane accepted my proposal.
珍要是接受我的求婚就好了。
Even if...表示即使...也。
Even if you failed again, you shouldn't give up.
即使你再次失败,你也不应放弃。
may+原形动词是假设语气的一种形式,表示祝愿。
May you succeed!
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