Khubilai
2015/11/06
Come在表达未来时间点的情况下可视为介词，相当于by，但也有人认为属于虚拟语气，意为when something comes、when something has come、when something shall come或let something come。此种用法通常被认为是非正式的或老派的。例如，
1. I'm seventeen come Sunday.
相当于when Sunday has come。
2. I shall be a married man come Tuesday week.
相当于the Tuesday after next。
3. Come spring, there will be plenty of colour in the garden.
相当于When spring has come或When spring will come。
4. Estate agents were always going to be the first to go, come the internet age.
相当于 when the interned age came、when the internet age should come 、 when the internet age arrived或because the internet age has come。
5. Australia, for instance, recently passed plain-packaging laws that will remove the Marlboro Man's picture from packs come December.
相当于next December、when December comes、when December has come或when December begins.。
6. Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
7. Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
8. They would have been married forty years come this June.
9. Come next week she’ll have changed her mind.
10. It'll pick you up come morning.
11. Come the revolution there will be no more banks
12. I'll be home for the holidays, come what may.
13. Come what may, the mail will get delivered.
14. It's always good to knowthat, come what may, your job is safe.
15. We'll go to Tibet come hell or high water.
16. I'll be there tomorrow, come hell or high water.
17. Come hell or high water, I intend to own my own home.
参考资料：
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/come#Preposition
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/come_2
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/come-morning.2246287/
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/252564/is-this-subjunctive
http://alt.usage.english.narkive.com/bZwYIqnD/come-time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Monday
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