1. 按傳統語法,recently 壹般用於肯定句,在否定句或疑問句中要用lately, 但在現代英語中此規則已沒有被嚴格遵守。
2. 表示“最近”“近來”,壹般與現在完成時(強調與現在的聯系)或壹般過去時(只是客觀地陳述過去發生的事)連用(可置於句首、句中或句末):We hear that he went abroad recently. 我們聽說他最近出國了。/ I’ve only recently begun to learn French. 直到最近我才開始學法語。/ It happened quite [very] recently. 這是最近發生的事。
3. 不用來指現在或未來,所以不能用於現在時或將來時態:
正:Have you seen her recently? 妳最近見過她嗎?
誤:Do you see her recently?
正:I’ll go to Beijing soon. 不久我將去北京。
誤:I’ll go to Beijing recently.
4. 在 as recently as(近在…,就在最近的…)這壹結構之後所接的表時間的短語,通常不用介詞:
我就在最近的5月4日還見過他。
正:I met him as recently as May 4.
誤:I met him as recently as on May 4.
類例:as recently as 1978 近在1978年
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摘自《英語基礎詞匯用法詞典》金盾出版社