英语时与体的探讨

本文从理论和实践两个方面分3部分阐明了英语时间与时、时与体之间的相互关系。尽管某些语言在时与体之间的特征多么相似,但它们的运用仍有其自己的特殊含义。文章分析和比较了汉语与英语两种语言的时间与时、时与体的各自表现形式,由此剖析了时与体的本质区别及内在的相互关联;着重探讨了中国学生在学习现在完成体时遇到的困惑,从而表明了母语对学习外国语会起着不同程度的制约作用。

A STUDY OF TENSE AND ASPECT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

This paper ismainly composed of three parts. Based on the theory of language teaching and learning a research is made between time and tense, and between tense and aspect in English language learning. No matter how similar it is, every language has its own peculiar problems of meaning for foreign learners. In the first Part, the confusing forms of time and tense and of tense and aspect are analysed as well as Compared between the two languages: Chinese and English, In the second part, the internal relationship iS identified between tense (situation external time )and aspect (situation internal time ). In the last part, some tangibie problems of the present perfect are discussed concerned with the Chinese learners, and an explicit conclusion is also drawn that learner's mind is more or less constrained by one's mother tongue in the process of foreign language learning and there is the rub.