these days不可以和其它時(shí)態(tài)連用嗎？　　

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《牛津初中英語》八年級下補(bǔ)充習(xí)題(譯林出版社 2010年11月第3次印刷)p17: 　　

Amy: Really? (4) _______your aunt____(be) in Beijing these days?　　

與之相配套的《牛津初中英語》八年級下教師教學(xué)用書(譯林出版社 2010年11月第5次印刷)p137所給答案為4  Has been　　

然而，張?jiān)孪榻淌谠谄渚幹�的《英語語法一點(diǎn)通》(上海外語教育出版社2007年1月第1版)p374-374上卻說：these days的英文釋義是now, at present, nowadays，指現(xiàn)在，尤指對比過去的現(xiàn)在，因此不能與包括現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)在內(nèi)的過去時(shí)間表示法連用，而是要求與[1]一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)，[2]與現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行時(shí)連用。　　

到此可知以上兩種觀點(diǎn)是互相矛盾的。那么，究竟these days能否和除一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)與現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行時(shí)之外的其它時(shí)態(tài)連用嗎？還是讓事實(shí)來回答吧。　　

1.和現(xiàn)在完成進(jìn)行時(shí)連用　　

■周國珍主編《英漢詳注詞典》(上海交通大學(xué)出版社 1997年10月第1版)p1486:We have been doing a hard day’s work these days.這些天來，我們一直工作的很辛苦。　　

■The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORAY AMERICAN ENGLISH (1990-2011) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University) http://www.americancorpus.org/ ：　　

1993 Tomorrow we will try to go again to Srebrenica with food and with relief supplies, and of course we will take the people that are the most vulnerable ones, the wounded, the sick, as we have been doing these days, but no empty trucks to Srebrenica.　　

1995 You have been working these days for upwards of 20 years at Marshall Field's, give me a feel for the excitement that goes through this place on the day after Thanksgiving?　　

2001 Certainly, hardly anyone his son has been playing against these days has been much of a deterrent.　　

2. 和現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)連用　　

■簡清國主編《外研社·建宏英漢多功能詞典》(外語與教學(xué)研究出版社1997年1月第1版) P378: I haven’t seen her these days. 我這些天來都沒見到她。　　

■The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORAY AMERICAN ENGLISH (1990-2011) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University) http://www.americancorpus.org/ ：　　

1991 …,one more piece of bad luck for a people who have found these days particularly difficult.　　

1992 She has done enough these days.　　

1995 The first hand in the air does not engender confidence; then again, you realize that students have lived everywhere these days.　　

1995 Things have changed these days.　　

1997 I quote Martin Luther King in this book, and I cite his evocation of Christianity as the source of his feeling that man should be free and go on to wonder why, where Martin Luther King has celebrated these days, but the Christian faith that inspired him is very widely neglected in the same places.　　

1999 If a 12-year-old has heard Clinton these days, it's probably because, after James Brown (or Brown's celebrated " funky drummer " Clyde Stubblefield), Clinton's music is sampled ubi-quitously by hip-hop record producers.　　

2002 Much of what we have seen these days is really the comeuppance of earlier policies.　　

2003 The camera appeared ordinary enough. One of those digital jobbies that stored hundreds of images on one chip and downloaded directly to a computer. The kind every tourist seemed to have invested in these days.　　

2006 " What voir dire has turned into these days is the psychological stacking of juries as much as possible, " she says.　　

2010 More kids must have had cars these days.　　

2010 Advocacy, ubiquitous as the phrase has become these days, does not appear to be a big enough strategy to shield us from the shifting political realities and economic downturn.　　

■TIME MAGAZINE CORPUS (1923-2006) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University ) (http://corpus.byu.edu/time)：　　

2001 The dauphins have been lucky these days　　

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