009. Did you use to...
你過去常……嗎?
[句型解析]
和“Are you used to...”不同,“Did you use to...”表示的是“你過去常……嗎?”,指過去經(jīng)常性的習(xí)慣行為,“to”為不定式符號(hào)。當(dāng)陳述部分的作用詞為“used not to”時(shí),其一般疑問句形式為:“Didn’t you...”
[實(shí)例]
1. Did you use to live in Tokyo?
你過去住在東京嗎?
2. Did you use to get up early?
你過去常早起嗎?
3. You used to smoke heavily, didn’t you?
你過去抽煙很厲害,是嗎?
[實(shí)戰(zhàn)練習(xí)]
A: Did you use to have any really bad habits?
你有過壞習(xí)慣嗎?
B: I used to bite my toenails when I was younger but now I don’t.
我小時(shí)候常咬腳指甲,但現(xiàn)在不了。
A: What made you stop?
為什么不了?
B: One day I bit my toenail too deeply and my toe started bleeding. So I
learned my lesson and didn’t bite my toenails again.
有一天我咬得太深,腳指頭都流血了。因此我吸取教訓(xùn)再也不咬了。