When you consider that the airline handled 80 million passengers last year, the accident figures are really very small.
如果你考虑到这家航空公司去年运送了8,000万名乘客,那么这个事故率其实是非常低的。
nTHESAURUS
when at or during the time that something happens
Call me when you get home.
When I got here, the place was empty.
while during the time that something is happening – used to emphasize that something is continuing
I’ll make the salad while you set the table.
While we were on holiday, our house was burgled.
whenever used in order to emphasize that something always happens when another thing happens
He visits his mother whenever he can.
You can come and talk to me whenever you have a problem.
by the time used in order to say that one thing has or will have already happened when something else happens
By the time a child is five, he will have watched hundreds of hours of television.
5GRAMMAR 语法
Generally, in a clause beginning with when that refers to the future, use the present tense or present perfect, not ‘will’. 一般情况下,在以when引导的表示将来的从句中,用现在时或现在完成时,不用will
They don’t know what is going to happen when the project is finished (NOT 不说 when the project will be finished).
他们不知道这个项目完成后会发生什么。
However, when asking or talking about the time that something will happen, use will. 但是询问或谈论某事何时发生则要用will
Remove the supports when the glue has set.
胶水凝固后就把支撑物拿掉。
When will the government take action?
政府何时会采取行动?
teenagers who don’t let their parents know when they will be home
不告诉父母什么时候回家的青少年
nGRAMMAR: Choosing the right tense
You use the present tense with when:
What are you planning to do when you leave college?
Don’t use ‘will’ in the clause after when. ✗Don’t say: What are you planning to do when you will leave college?
You can also use the present perfect tense with when:
What are you planning to do when your course has finished?
When talking about the past, you can use the past perfect tense with when:
When the rain had stopped, they went outside.
Examples from the Corpus
when• When are you going to the store?• When did she notice it was missing?
the day/time/afternoon etc when• SuperStar Video's tapes have all been packed up, waiting for the day when he finds a new location.• Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imaginethe day when his turn would come and he would become SpecialPensioner Khrushchev.• And then there are the times when I say nothing.• It is better to abolishserfdom from above than to awaitthe day when it will begin to abolish itself from below.• Most of the time whenmarkets move, no one has any ideawhy.• She lived for the day when she could crunch numbers in the dryair of WestTexas.• This comment was made in the early 1980s, around the time when sociolinguistic methods were undergoing some changes.• The nameoriginated from the days when this house belonged to the localpoliceman.