方式状语从句通常由as, (just) as…so…,
as if, as though, by,with引导,多用来谈论某人的行为或者做某事的方式。
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●由as just as…so…引导
as, (just) as…so…引导的方式状语
从句通常位于
主句Always do to the others as you would be done by.
你希望人家怎样待你，你就要怎样待人。
As water is to fish, so air is to man.
我们离不开空气，犹如鱼儿离不开水。
You must try to hold the tool as I do.
你必须像我这样拿工具｡
Leave the things as they are.
别动这些东西｡
We must do as the Party tells us (to do).
我们必须按照党的指示办事｡.
Just as we sweep our rooms, so we should sweep backward ideas from our minds.
正如打扫房屋一样，我们也要扫除我们头脑中落后的东西。
●由as if 或 as though引导
as if 和as though 引导的从句中的时态取决于说话者对所谈内容的态度。若说话者认为其看法是真的或可能会成为事实，从句谓语就按常规变化。
例如：
He looks as if he is angry.
他看上去好像生气了。
It looked as if there would be an exciting race.
看来要有一场激动人心的比赛。
When the spaceship leaves the earth at tremendous speed，the astronauts feel as if they are being crushed against the spaceship floor.
当
宇宙飞船以巨大的速度离开
地球时，宇航员们觉得自己好像正在被压向宇宙飞船的底壁上去。
如果从句的内容是不真实的，是与事实相反的，从句的谓语时态要用
虚拟语气。主句谓语用
一般现在时态，对从句的谓语形式没有影响。
两者的意义和用法相同，引出的
状语从句谓语多用
虚拟语气appear，
behave，feel，look，seem，smell，sound，taste及其他描写
行为举止的动词之后，引导一个方式从句。例如：
They completely ignore these facts as if (as though) they never existed.
他们完全忽略了这些事实，就仿佛它不存在似的。（与事实相反，谓语用虚拟语气。）
He looks as if (as though) he had been hit by lightning.
他那样子就像被雷击了似的。（与事实相反，谓语用虚拟语气。）
It looks as if the weather may
pick up very soon.
看来天气很快就会好起来。（实现的可能性较大，谓语用陈述语气。）
说明：as if / as though也可以引导一个
分词短语、
不定式短语、形容词或
介词短语，例如：
He stared at me as if seeing me for the first time.
他目不转睛地看着我，就像第一次看见我似的。
He cleared his throat as if to say something.
他清了清嗓子，像要说什么似的。
The waves dashed on the rocks as if in anger.
波涛冲击着岩石，好像很愤怒。
He acted just as if he were afraid.
他装得好像很害怕的样子。
He behaves as if he were a child.
他的举止就像个孩子。
其他
●in the way that
Please pronounce the word the way I do.请照我这样,读这个单词
They didn’t do it the way we do now.那时他们不像我们现在这样行事。
I can’t help seeing things the way they do.我禁不住也像他们那样看事物。
●like口语常用
He sits there smiling like it was his birthday.他面带微笑坐在那儿,像是过生日似的.
（这里用了虚拟语气，值得注意的是
be动词用的
was，而表示虚拟as if引导的be动词则只能是
were。）