Difference between SOLITARY, SINGLE and LONELY | English Grammar for Beginners · Learn English with EnglishClass101.com
讲解SOLITARY、SINGLE和LONELY三个词的区别，适合初学者练习英语语法和词汇使用。通过例句帮助理解不同语境下的正确用法。
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通过我们的这本包含2000个核心单词的电子书来扩充你的词汇量吧。
It's free and packed with essential expressions that you'll use on a daily basis.
这个工具是完全免费的，其中包含了许多你在日常生活中会经常用到的基本表达语句。
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从今天开始，就开始扩充你的词汇量吧。
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请点击下方描述中的链接，在这本免费的英文电子书被下架之前下载它。
Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.
大家好，欢迎回到《问艾丽西亚》这个每周播出的节目。在这个节目中，大家可以向我提出各种问题，而我也会一一为大家解答。
Maybe.
也许吧。
Let's get to your first question.
让我们先来回答你的第一个问题。
This week, first question this week comes from Zera.
这周的第一个问题是来自 Zera 的。
Hi Zera, I hope I said your name correctly.
嗨，Zera，希望我叫对了你的名字。
Zera asked, Hi Alicia, I'm wondering which one is correct to use?
泽拉问道：“嗨，艾丽西亚，我想知道哪个用法是正确的？
A, I have worked abroad for two years.
啊，我在国外工作了两年。
B, I worked abroad for two years.
B、I：我在国外工作了两年。
Thanks for your lessons, I appreciate your work.
感谢你提供的这些“课程”（即你的指导和帮助），我非常感激你所做的一切。
Okay, your question is which is correct to use?
好的，你的问题是：哪种用法是正确的？
So first I'll answer, both of these sentences are grammatically correct, but they communicate different things.
首先，我要说明的是：这两个句子在语法上都是正确的，但它们表达的意思不同。
So let's do a little bit of grammar review with these two example sentences that you have kindly provided us with.
那么，让我们通过您提供的这两个例句来复习一下语法知识吧。
So let's take a look at A first.
那么，我们先来看看 A 吧。
I have worked abroad for two years.
我在国外工作了两年。
This means you are still working abroad.
这意味着你仍然在国外工作。
I have worked abroad for two years.
我在国外工作了两年。
Sounds like you are still in the process of working abroad.
听起来你仍在海外工作的过程中。
A different way to say this is I have been working abroad for two years.
换一种说法就是：我已经在国外工作两年了。
This is one of the situations in which it's okay to use that progressive form have been working or not.
在这种情况下，即使某种“渐进式表达方式”（progressive form）是否真的有效（即是否达到了预期的效果），使用它也是完全可以的。
You can choose and we can understand the same meaning regardless of use of that progressive form or not.
你可以自行选择表达方式；无论是否使用那种“进行时”（progressive form）的形式，我们都能理解其含义。
So if you say I have worked abroad for two years, it sounds like that's something that you're still doing.
所以，如果你说“我在国外工作了两年”，听起来就好像你现在仍在继续这份工作一样。
So the other situation in which you might see this grammar used is in say a job interview situation.
另一种可能会使用这种语法的情况是求职面试。
If they ask about your work experience or your life experience, you might say something like oh yes,
如果他们询问你的工作经验或生活经历，你可以这样说：“哦，是的……
I have worked abroad to show that you have life experience.
我曾在国外工作过，这可以证明我具备丰富的生活经验。
But in this situation you wouldn't use for two years.
但在这种情况下，你可能两年都不会使用它。
Generally we don't assign like a length of time to that kind of experience.
通常，我们不会为这类经历设定具体的时间期限。
Generally when we want to express just that we've had the experience of doing something like oh I have eaten that before.
通常，当我们只是想表达自己曾经有过某种经历时，比如“我之前吃过那个东西”之类的，就可以直接这么说。
Oh I've been there before.
哦，我以前也遇到过这种情况。
We usually don't put a time with that experience.
我们通常不会为这种经历设定一个具体的时间节点（即不会明确指出这种经历发生在什么具体时间）。
Usually that's in a follow -up question.
通常，这会通过一个后续问题来表达。
So you might use just the beginning part of your example sentence.
因此，你可以只使用示例句子的开头部分。
I have worked abroad in a job interview situation and that would be correct.
我曾在国外参加过工作面试，这种情况确实存在（即面试是在国外进行的）。
So to sum up my response to example sentence A, I have worked abroad for two years.
那么，总结一下我对例句A的回答：我在国外工作了两年。
Sounds like you still work abroad.
听起来你仍然在国外工作。
It's one way to express that.
这是一种表达方式。
So let's compare this to example sentence B.
那么，让我们将这个例子与例句B进行比较吧。