We often use the past subjunctive in subordinate clauses that begin with as though, as if, and if, as well as with the verb wish.

我们经常在从句中使用过去虚拟语气，从句以 as though，as if，and if 还有 wish 开头。

The English name makes it sound as though Robinson is the family's surname, but a more accurate translation would be The Swiss Robinsons, because it's about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked, like Robinson Crusoe in the novel of a century earlier.

英文名字听起来鲁滨逊是庭的姓氏，但是更准确的翻译应该是《瑞士的鲁滨逊》，因为是关于一遭遇海难的瑞士庭的故事，就像一世纪之前的小说《鲁宾逊漂流记》一样。

The air seemed thin, as though its combination of gases had little oxygen left.

空气似乎很稀薄，好像在混合的气体中剩下的氧气很少。

I feel as though I'd eaten a spool of thread.

“我觉得好象吃了一团丝。

The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire.

经拥有迷人景色的道路两旁，现在满是焦黄、枯萎的植物，好像被大火烧过一样。

Many feel as though they're still in decline, and they don't have the ability to turn things around.

许多民众深感生活持续走下坡路，自身无力扭转现状。

Neither of them broke step: In silence both raised their left arms in a kind of salute and passed straight through, as though the dark metal was smoke.

静寂中，他们像行礼似举起了左手，然后径直穿过了铁门，那黑色的金属仿佛只是一团 烟雾。

Several people sniggered. Harry saw Cho laughing and felt the familiar swooping sensation in his stomach, as though he had missed a step going downstairs.

几人笑。哈利看到秋也在笑，心里又是一跳，好像下楼时一脚踩空了似的。

And feeling as though you’re at the bottom impacts your confidence and ultimately your motivation.

自己在垫底的感觉会影响你的信心，最终阻碍你的积极性。

It seems as though it's most likely isolated to the tooth area.

目前感染很可能是孤立在牙齿区域。

They're possessed as though by a demon, as though in the movie The Exorcist.

他们就像被恶魔附身，就像电影《驱魔人》中的情节一样。

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.

我的视线寻找她，仿佛要把她拉到眼前。

Harry felt as though the bottom had dropped out of his stomach.

哈利觉得心里一下子空落落的。

So it's not as though anyone whowants to become a nicer person can simply take a dose of psilocybin and be instantlytransformed.

所以并不是任何一想把自己性格变好的人都能通过服用一定剂量的裸草头碱就立刻改变。

We have look as if, look as though and look like.

look as if, look as though 和 look like（看起来好像）。

As though he needs reminding of that on his first day at school.”

你们是想让他在到校的第一天就想起那件事呀！”

Act as though the things that you want to possess are already in your possession.

做事的时候，你要觉得你想要拥有的东西仿佛已经在自己的掌握之中。

It is as though anthropologists had discovered villages populated both by human beings and chimpanzees.

就像是人类学发现村落中既住着人类也住着黑猩猩。

As though I have another person doing this?

好像有另一人在做件事。

They played as though they knew deep inside that they are representing a new-day ahead.

他们打球的方式，就好像他们内心深处知道自己代表着崭新的未来。