以as if (as though)引导的方式状语从句或表语从句,有时用虚拟语气,若表示与现在事实相反,谓语动词用一般过去时;若表示与过去事实相反,用过去完成时;表示将来的可能性不大,用would (might, could)+动词原形。如:
I love you as if you were my son. 我爱你就像你是我的儿子。
When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it were broken. 当把一支铅笔的一部分放在一杯水里时, 它看起来好像折断了似的。
注:有时虚拟语气并不明显(特别是主句动词为过去时时)。如:
He paused as though he found a difficulty. 他停了下来,仿佛遇到什么困难似的。
若从句所表示的内容为事实或可能为事实,也可用陈述语气。如:
It seemed as though he didn't recognize me.
与单词:as though 相关的例句或者名人名言
She greeted him now as though he were a recalcitrant member of the family, rather than a menacing outsider.
她现在和他打招呼,把他当作一个难以驾驭的家庭成员,而不是一个危险的外人。
It was as though this foreign vagrant twanged within him a neglected string, which gave forth moans of mutiny.
仿佛这个外国流浪汉拨动了他心里久被忽略的一根心弦,因而发出了反叛的呻吟。
She cherished the child as though he were her own.
她抚育这个孩子就像自己的孩子一样。
He behaves as though he were rich.
他表现得好象很富有。
※Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less.——(S. Bernhardt) 要这样生活,仿佛你寿命永恒;要这样工作,仿佛你精力无穷。(波恩哈特)