English Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院
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				Lesson 8   Grammar  ( Page 1)
			More About Adverbial Clauses of Time C) 副词directly, immediately, by the time, as soon as也可以引起表示时间的状语从句。 … by the time the pickets began to chuckle, the Governor-General was striding briskly up the school steps. 等到纠察队咯咯地笑起来时，总督已经大步流星地走上了学校的台阶。 Immediately the dean arrived, the meeting began. 院长一到，会议马上开始。 D) no sooner 用在主句中时，从句中用 than；主句中使用了hardly，从句中则用 when, or before. The Foreign Minister had no sooner finished answering one question than another question cropped up. 外交部长刚回答完一个问题，就又冒出另一个问题。 2. They had hardly crossed the river when the bridge collapsed. 他们刚过河，桥就倒塌了。 将No sooner, hardly 放在主句的句首时,句子要发生变化：had + 主语 1. No sooner had the professor asked the question than several students raised their hands. 教授刚提出问题，就有几个学生举起手来。 2. Hardly had she arrived at the airport when she was told that the flight had been cancelled. 她刚到机场，就获知航班被取消了。