Name: 使用不同的時態來表達禮貌 - 英語一分鐘 (Using different tenses to be polite - English In A Minute)
Uploaded: 2020-12-07T18:50:19.000Z
Duration: 57 s
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we can use our past tense to talk politely about something in the present.

我們可以用過去式來禮貌地談論現在的事情。

頻率副詞

In English, you can sometimes use past tenses to be less direct and more polite.

在英語中，你有時可以使用過去時態，以減少直接和禮貌。

過去簡單式

I want to ask you something now, and I still hope you'll make my lunch.

我現在想問你一件事，我還是希望你能給我做午飯。

But it's less direct, using a continuous tense consume, less permanent on also less direct.

但它不太直接，用的是連續的時態消耗，不太長久上也不太直接。

I'm thinking you should buy the ingredients.

I'm not planning to help you to really distance yourself.

我並不打算幫你真正拉開距離。

I was hoping you were going to make dessert.

I was expecting you to do the washing up.

I'm being unreasonable, but I'm using past and continuous tenses as distancing to sound polite while I do it.

我是無理取鬧，但我一邊用過去式和連續式作為疏遠，聽起來很有禮貌。