关于英语完成时态的问题这是新概念第二册第九课一片课文"Onwednesdayevening,wewenttotheTownHall.Itwasthelastdayoftheyearandalargecrowdofpeoplehadgatheredunderthetownhallclock".现在我主要不懂里

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关于英语完成时态的问题
这是新概念第二册第九课一片课文"On wednesday evening,we went to the Town Hall.It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the town hall clock".现在我主要不懂里面的时态问题,就算我把这句话改成"On wednesday evening,we had gone to the Town Hall.It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people gathered under the town hall clock",就是两个时态变了,说的意思不是一样吗?

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在第一句话中,有一个明显的时间状语：On Wednesday evening, 在这种情况下,只能用过去时.后面的句子中之所以用了过去完成时,是因为 had gathered 是在我们到达（went to) 这个动作之前发生的,也就是我们所说的“过去的过去", 这时必须用过去完成时.又如：
When we got to the cinema, the film had already begun. 到达got to是过去时,在这个过去时之前发生的动作就要用过去完成时.