英语将来时间表达手段是多种多样的，所表示的将来时间意义也各具特色。语法学家力图从句法、语义等制约条件来解释其区别，但这些解释一是缺乏系统，纷繁复杂，二是不能杜绝例外。本文从语用学角度出发，对英语几种表示将来时间的主要语法手段进行时间结构分析，试图作出一个系统的语用学解释。 The means of expressing time in English in the future is varied, and the meaning of time in the future also has its own characteristics. Grammatists try to explain the differences from the syntactic, semantic and other constraints, but these explanations are lack of systematic and complex, and second, they can not eliminate the exception. From the perspective of pragmatics, this article analyzes the temporal structure of several major grammatical means of English in the future to try to make a systematic pragmatic explanation.