在英语语法中，习惯现在时是现在时的动词，用来表示有规律或反复发生的动作。它也被称为现在习惯。通常情况下，习惯性现在使用动态动词，而不是状态动词，它可能伴随着频率副词，如总是、经常或很少。

实例和意见

下面是习惯性现在的例子。（注意斜体字。）

• 在电影《50次初次约会》中，露西·惠特莫尔每天醒来时都会忘记前一天发生的车祸，这几乎消除了她的短期记忆。

"He runs every morning in New York. Twice around the reservoir. I know, because I go with him. I don't run, but I go." (From "Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson" by Wil Haygood) "His wife buys daily the food for that day in a permanent market of small stores and booths in the plaza in quantities so small as to astound and amaze an American housewife." (From "Tonalá: Conservatism, Responsibility and Authority in a Mexican Town" by May N. Diaz) "Joshua Stillman must be old but nobody ever thinks of what his age might be, he is so very much alive. He goes to the city every day and comes back early every afternoon. As he so seldom talks about himself nobody knows exactly what he does except that it has to do with books and small print." (From "Green Valley" by Katharine Reynolds)

频率副词与习惯现在时连用

"Present tense is also used with active verbs to describe something that happens routinely or habitually. Like the present tense that is used for general statements of fact, the habitual present tense does not limit routine or habitual activities to a particular time span. Instead, it suggests a timeless quality; that is, the habit or routine that happens regularly also did so in the past and will do so in the future:

• 赫兰用卡车把食物和水运到沙漠中他家的帐篷营地。

When the present tense is used to describe a habitual or routine activity, it may have an adverb of frequency with it.

• 每个星期六，赫兰开车进城获取食物和水供应。
• 他每周都给他的卡车洗车和打蜡。”

（摘自琳达·贝茨的《过渡：交互式阅读、写作和语法文本》）

习惯现在和现在进行

"The habitual present . . . is used with dynamic verbs to encode situations that occur habitually over time, even if the action is not being carried out at the moment of speaking. For instance, referring to the following examples, Tim may not actually be working, nor the leaves falling at the moment of speaking. Nevertheless, the recurrent situation holds as the normal course of things and is appropriately referred to by the present tense.

• 蒂姆在一家保险公司工作。
• 许多树在秋天落叶。

Again, it must be pointed out that the plain present tense used for habitual and other meanings contrasts with the present progressive, which encodes an actual occurrence of a dynamic action observed in the process of happening, as in

• 蒂姆今天工作到很晚。
• 树木已经在落叶了。”

（摘自安吉拉·道林和菲利普·洛克的《英语语法：大学课程》）

来源

• 贝茨，琳达。“过渡：交互式阅读、写作和语法文本，第二版”，《剑桥大学出版社》，2005年
• 唐宁，安吉拉；洛克，菲利普。《英语语法：大学课程，第二版》，劳特利奇，2006年