「when」句式主要用於表達時間,常見結構包括:
be doing sth...when...。用於表達「正在做某事,突然發生另一件事」。例如,He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.(他正笑著的時候,門突然開了,妻子走了進來)。
be about to do sth...when...。用於表達「正要做某事,突然發生另一件事」。例如,We were about to start when it began to rain.(我們剛要出發,天就開始下雨了)。
had just done sth...when...。用於表達「剛做完某事,突然發生另一件事」。例如,I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang.(勞累了一天之後,我剛剛就寢,電話就響了)。
hardly...when...。用於表達「剛要做某事,突然發生另一件事」,與「had just done sth...when...」結構相似。
這些結構中的「when」通常用來表示兩件事情之間的時間關係,即一件事情發生在另一件事情的某個特定時刻。