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A question from Abdalla Salih:
Which is correct: 'Let's go home' or 'It's high time we went home', and why do you use the past tense of 'go' here?
Hints:
英式拼法，全部不加双引号
You can remember the time expressions I mentioned before as fixed expressions and they all have more or less the same meaning. They are quite formal in their use and are stating that it's time that something happened. A parent might say to a child, for example. It's time you went to bed, which means I want you to go to bed.
In the party situation you could say, as I mentioned above, let's go, but you could also say. It's time we went. You can imagine the person who said that might be looking at their watch and worrying perhaps about catching a train.
And if the situation is a little more urgent, we use the expression, it's high time, which means it's very important that this happens now. It's high time we left, come on or we'll miss the train. Or again a parent might say to an older child. It's high time you found a job, young man.
So in summary, let's go is an informal suggestion or a polite instruction. It's high time we left, is a formal statement that it's important that something happen soon or that something happen now.
And now, it's about time I finished this answer. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:14:17