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since

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同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

conj. 因为；由于；既然；自…以来；自…以后
prep. 自…以来；自…以后
adv. 后来

实用场景例句

She's been off work since Tuesday.: 星期二以来她一直没上班。

We've lived here since 1994.: 自1994年以来我们一直住在这里。

I haven't eaten since breakfast.: 早饭以后我还没吃过东西呢。

He's been working in a bank since leaving school.: 他中学毕业以后一直在一家银行工作。

Since the party she had only spoken to him once.: 那次聚会以后，她只和他说过一次话。

‘They've split up. ’ ‘ Since when? ’: “他们分手了。”“什么时候的事儿？”

That was years ago. I've changed jobs since then .: 那是多年以前的事了。自那以来我已经换过几个工作了。

Since when did he ever listen to me?: 他什么时候听过我的话？

Cath hasn't phoned since she went to Berlin.: 卡思自从去了柏林还没有打来过电话。

It was the first time I'd had visitors since I'd moved to London.: 那是我搬到伦敦以后第一次有人来看我。

It's twenty years since I've seen her.: 我已经二十年没见她了。

How long is it since we last went to the theatre?: 我们多久没去看戏了？

She had been worrying ever since the letter arrived.: 自从接到那封信后她就一直焦虑不安。

We thought that, since we were in the area, we'd stop by and see them.: 我们想，既然到了这个地方，就该顺便去看看他们。

He left home two weeks ago and we haven't heard from him since.: 他两周前离家外出，我们至今还没有他的音信。

The original building has long since (= long before now) been demolished.: 原来的建筑老早就拆了。

We were divorced two years ago and she has since remarried.: 我们两年前离了婚，之后她又再婚了。

Jacques Arnold has been a member of parliament since 1987...: 雅克·阿诺德自 1987 年以来一直是议会议员。

She had a sort of breakdown some years ago, and since then she has been very shy...: 几年前她得了神经衰弱，自那以后就变得十分腼腆。

The percentage increase in reported crime in England and Wales this year is the highest since the war...: 今年英格兰和威尔士报道的犯罪增长率是战后以来最高的。

He turned out to have more battles with the Congress than any president since Andrew Johnson.: 结果他是自安德鲁·约翰逊以来和国会斗争最多的一任总统。

About six thousand people were arrested, several hundred of whom have since been released...: 约 6,000 人被捕，后来其中的几百人又被释放了。

His style of leadership has attracted increasing criticism among his supporters, many of whom have since left Central Office.: 他的领导风格已经在他的拥趸中引起了越来越多的批评，很多人后来离开了总局。

Even though her parents have long since died, she still talks about them in the present tense.: 尽管双亲早已离世，她谈论起他们时好像他们至今健在。

I'm forever on a diet, since I put on weight easily...: 我永远都在减肥，因为我很容易长胖。

Since she did not make enough money to live in her own house, she went back to live with her mother.: 她挣的钱不够自己一个人住，于是搬回去和她妈妈一起住了。

同义词辨析

as, because, for, since

这些连词均含有"因为"之意。

as：从属连词，语意较because, since弱，着重在主句，所表示的原因或理由是"附带的"。

because：从属连词，语意强，着重直接的原因或理由，所引出的从句是全句的重心，用以回答why提出的问题。

for：并列连词，语气较弱，所引出的句子一般放在后面，表示附带说明的理由或推断理由。

since：语意比because弱，但比as强，一般用于表示"由于大家已知的事实"。