VOA慢速英语:Rebuilding Higher Education in South Sudan

一般现在时用来表示将来

这种时态可以和一个时间短语连用以表示已确定的、对将来的安排：

The boys start school on Monday．

男孩们星期一开学。

I leave tonight．

我今天晚上动身。

这一用法代替了较常用的现在进行时态：

The bys are starting school on Monday．

男孩儿们星期一就要开学了。

I’m leaving tonight．

我今天晚上就动身。

这两种时态之间的差别是：

a.一般现在时比现在进行时具有的个人色彩更少： I’m leav－ing tonight通常可能含有我决定离开的意思，但I leave

tonight可指这是计划的一部分，但计划不一定是我订的。

b.一般现在时要比现在进行时听起来更为正式。计划开办一个新分店的百货商店很可能说Our new branch opens nextweek（本店新设分店下周开业），而不说Our new branch is opening next week。

c.有时，现在进行时显得累赘的地方就用一般现在时，例如在谈到像旅程安排那样的一系列预定的将来的动作时，可以这样说：

We leave at six，arrive in Dublin at ten and take the plane on…

我们6点出发，10点到达都柏林，并在……乘飞机……

而不说：

We are leaving at six，arriving in Dublin at ten and taking the plane on然而要注意，在像My train leaves at six（我常乘坐的火车6点开）这样的句子中，用一般现在时表示习惯性动作，这里就不能用现在进行时来代替。

2.Yet it has only fifty kilometers of good roads and almost no public electrical power or other basic systems.

yet用作连词时，与but一样也主要用于转折，意为“但是”“而”：

I have failed, yet I shall try again. 我失败了，但我还要尝试。

The judge was stern, yet completely fair. 法官很严峻，却完全公正。

They are the same, yet not the same. 它们又一样，又不一样。

It is strange, yet it is true. 那真是怪事，然而却是事实。

I’ve been away only for three years, yet I can hardly recognize my hometown. 我仅在外三年，可我几乎认不出我自己的故乡了。

He said he was our friend, yet he wouldn’t help us. 他说他是我们的朋友，但却不肯帮助我们。

有时用在句首。如：

Yet the house was cheerful. 但屋子里显得很欢快。

Yet its population has doubled. 但它的人口翻了一番。

yet有时可与并列连词and或but连用，构成习语and yet和but yet，且两者大致同义(均相当于表转折的but)：

I gave him ten pounds (and) yet he was not satisfied. 我给了他十镑但他仍不满足。

She’s vain and foolish, and yet people like her. 她很虚荣愚蠢，但人们却喜欢她。

She drove very fast to the airport, but [yet, and yet, but yet] she missed the plane. 她开快车去机场，可还是误了飞机。

although不能与表示转折的but连用，但是却可以与yet连用。如：

Although we have made some progress, yet we still have a long way to go. 我们虽然取得了些进步，但还是远远不够的。

3.He says most of the soldiers who have come out of the southern army need education and training.

come out of由…产生,从…出来

例句：come out of the room
      从屋里走出来

4.And we, as an institution, will have the role of producing those who will come out and work in the agricultural sector, in terms of the necessary interventions that need to be made to improve our food security.

in terms of就…而言, 从…方面说来

例句：He referred to your work in terms of high praise.
      他对你的工作大加赞扬。

      He thought of everything in terms of money.
      他是从钱的角度来看每一件事。