Temporal Words and Phrases List
Temporal Words and Phrases List
1. after (afterward) 19. later
2. as soon as 20. meanwhile
3. at first 21. next (week, time, year)
4. at last 22. now
5. at the same time 23. once
6. before 24. previously
7. currently 25. prior
8. during the (minute, hour, day) 26. recently
9. earlier 27. shortly
10. eventually 28. simultaneously
11. finally 29. soon
12. first, second, third 30. then
13. for a (minute, hour, day) 31. today
14. immediately 32. tomorrow
15. in the future 33. until
16. in the meantime 34. when suddenly
17. in the past 35. while
18. last 36. yesterday

what is the context here? we need to know what story you're talking about : )

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.