时间副词“老”有时表示“一直”,有时表示“再三”,这与“老”所修饰的动词的语义类型有关。“老”修饰动作动词和变化动词时表示“再三”,修饰状态动词时表示“一直”,修饰动作动词和变化动词的否定形式时表示“一直”。“一直”和“再三”可概括为一个义位 ,即时间的“量大” The time adverb “老” sometimes means “always” and sometimes “repeatedly”, which is related to the semantic type of the verb modified by “old”. “Old” modifies action verbs and changing verbs, which means “repeated”, modifiers of state verbs mean “always”, and “always” when modifying negative forms of action verbs and changing verbs. “Always” and “repeatedly” can be summed up as a righteous position, that is, the “amount of time”