the present tense

My lusts usurp the present tense And strangle Reason in his seat.

我的欲念掠取此刻并在他的座位上扼杀理性.

It begins in the present tense –'Why will you say I am mad?

它开始于现在时——你们干吗要说我发疯?

Change this verb from the present tense into the past tense and future tense.

把这个动词从现在时改为过去时和将来时.

The entire story, every detail, is told in the present tense.

整个故事，每处细节，都是用现在时的语态来讲述的。

The metaphorical mapping processes of the past tense and the present tense reflect the universal cognitive mechanism of human beings, that is, we acquire knowledge from known to unknown.

过去时和现在时的隐喻映射过程反映了人类如何获取知识及如何通过已知来认知未知的普遍认知机制。

The semantics and the use of the English modal verb the present tense are very complicated.

英语情态动词现在时态的语义和用法十分复杂.

In me, past, present, future meet In me, past, present, future meet ， To hold long chiding conference. My lusts usurp the present tense. And strangle reason in his seat.

于我，过去、现在和未来于我，过去、现在和未来商讨聚会各执一词纷扰不息林林总总的欲望，掠取着我的现在把“理性”扼杀于它的宝座

It is written in the present tense and tells the entire screenplay as if it were a short story.

文案一般使用现在时撰写，并将剧本的主要情节改写为一个短篇故事。

She droned on for hours about the uses of the present tense.

她花了好几个小时啰嗦现在时的用法.

the past/present/future tense

过去 / 现在 / 将来时态

He told the student aloud that the regular verb was in the present tense.

他大声告诉学生，这个规则动词用的是现在时态。

It is also increasingly found in the present tense.

这种用法现亦逐渐多见於现在时态。

‘I am ’ is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb ‘to be ’.

I am是动词to be现在时的第一人称单数。

Commentators doubt whether the Minister can ride out the present tense situation.

评论家们怀疑这位部长能否平安渡过当前的紧张局势.

Remember the simple use of the present tense to indicate a regular or frequent activity, e.g.

记住一般现在时的简单用法时表示定期的或者频繁的活动。

Think about your goals in the present tense and imagine that you have already achieved them.

想想你现在的目标,想象你已经实现了它们.

Even though her parents have long since died, she still talks about them in the present tense.

尽管双亲早已离世，她谈论起他们时好像他们至今健在。

The boy present at the meeting was considering asking his father for a book on the present tense as a birthday present.

出席会议的男孩正考虑向他的父亲要一本关于现在时的书作生日礼物。

The verb is in the present tense.

这个动词使用的是现在时态。

The mapping is based on the proximity image schema, which is abstracted from the prototypical use of the present tense.

其隐喻映射所依赖的意象图式是从现在时的原型用法中抽象出来的邻近意象图式。

The non-present-time use of the present tense in the traditional grammar of English, as a matter of fact, is the mapping from space distance to time distance, then to psychological distance, as the management and embodiment of human cognitive metaphor in syntactic grammar.

传统语法中的英语中动词现在时的非现在时间用法实际上是从现实距离映射到时间距离，继而映射到心理距离，这是人类隐喻认知模式在语法结构中的运作和体现。

Here we should use the present tense.

这里我们用到了一般现在时。

Apart from a pesky s at the end of the present tense third person singular ( she runs), verbs remain unchanged no matter who you are talking about.

除了现在时第三人称单数后面那个讨厌的s以外（she runs），不管你谈到谁，动词形式保持不变。

Americans tend to lapse into the present tense when speaking of the past much more commonly than Brits do.

在讲述过去的事情时，美国人比英国人更常使用现在时态。

The prototypical use of the present tense is to express the proximity in time. Through metaphorical mapping, the proximity image schema in the time domain is mapped onto the reality domain, the imaginary reality domain and the psychology domain.

现在时最初是用来表示时间上的邻近，通过隐喻映射，邻近意象图式从时间域扩展到了真实域、想象真实域和心理域。

The present international situation remains tense and turbulent.

当前的国际局势依然紧张动荡.

Then, is it correct to use the present tense here?

那么，在这里用现在时，对吗？

Always use the present tense of verbs.

总是使用动词的现在时态.

His speech to the assembly referred to the Soviet Union in the present tense.

他在国民大会上的演讲中,把目前的危机和苏联解体相联系起来.

The Semantics and the Use of the Modal Verb in the Present Tense

情态动词现在时态的语义及用法