不好意思,我对这些时态的中文单词搞不清楚,所以我用英文来说吧。
In generally, use simple past tense if possible. For instance, you will say,
"Yesterday, I found out that Dinosaurs lived on Earth for 3 million years" (sorry that I made up the number....)
Use past perfect tense ONLY if you need to emphasis the sequence of the action.
"Yesterday, I found out that Dinosaurs had lived on Earth for 3 million years before they died out."
Here, you wanna to emphasize the sequence of two actions, namely "had lived" and "died out."
In the absence of other better choices, you may use "had".
-- by 会员 silent7706 (2010/6/15 11:07:14)