本文根据系统功能语言学的时态划分,对英语中时态意义的隐喻式体现方式,即时态语法隐喻,进行了一项基于真实语料的研究。结果表明,时态语法隐喻是一大类英语语言现象,由词汇手段体现,而非语法手段;它们主要出现在包孕、环境和属有三个关系过程当中。研究表明,时态语法隐喻的识别和判断是依据整个小句,而非单个成分,如动词。 Based on the temporal division of system functional linguistics, this paper conducts a study based on the real corpus of the metaphorical metaphor of temporal tense in English. The results show that the temporal grammatical metaphor is a large class of English language phenomena, which are embodied by means of lexical means rather than grammatical means; they mainly appear in the process of inclusion, environment and genus. Research shows that the recognition and judgment of temporal grammatical metaphors are based on the whole clause rather than individual components, such as verbs.