Would[usage-would]

Would。常用于表达习惯性或重复的动作。（"He would get up early and prepare his own breakfast before he went to work."）但当习惯或重复的意思已由once a year、every day,、each Sunday这类短语表达出来时，不用would的过去时通常就够了，而且由于简短，更有力。

• 误：Once a year he would visit the old mansion.
• 正：Once a year he visited the old mansion.

在叙事写作中，务必标出从一般到个别的过渡——也就是从仅仅陈述一般习惯的句子，过渡到表达某个特定日子或时期行动的句子。不标出这种变化会造成混乱。

Townsend would get up early and prepare his own breakfast. If the day was cold, he filled the stove and had a warm fire burning before he left the house. On his way out to the garage, he noticed that there were footprints in the new-fallen snow on the porch.

读者会迷失，因为他没有收到任何信号，表明Townsend已经从仅仅是个有习惯的人，变成了在某一天看到某件特定事物的人。

Townsend would get up early and prepare his own breakfast. If the day was cold, he filled the stove and had a warm fire burning before he left the house. One morning in January, on his way out to the garage, he noticed footprints in the new-fallen snow on the porch.