直接引语变成间接引语时,从句时态无须改变的情况 |
1)当主句的谓语动词是一般现在时的时候,如: |
He always says, “I am tired out.” ——>He always says that he is tired out. |
2)当主句的谓语动词是将来时的时候,如: |
He will say, “I’ll try my best to help you.” ——>He will say that he will try his best to help me. |
3)当直接引语部分带有具体的过去时间状语时,如: |
He said, “I went to college in 1994.” ——>He told us that he went to college in 1994. |
4)当直接引语中有以when, while引导的从句,表示过去的时间时,如: |
He said,“When I was a child, I usually played football after school.” ——> |
He said that when he was a child, he usually played football after school. |
5)当直接引语是客观真理或自然现象时,如: |
Our teacher said to us, “Light travels faster than sound.” ——> |
Our teacher told us that light travels faster than sound. |
6)当引语是谚语、格言时,如: |
He said,“Practice makes perfect.” ——>He said that practice makes perfect. |
7)当直接引语中有情态动词should, would, could, had better, would rather, might, must, ought to, used to, need时,如: |
例如: |
The doctor said, “You'd better drink plenty of water.” ——> |
The doctor said I'd better drink plenty of water. |
He said, “She must be a teacher.”——> He said that she must be a teacher. |
He said, “She ought to have arrived her office by now.”——> |
He said that she ought to have arrived her office by then. |
The teacher said, “You needn't hand in your compositions today.”——> |
The teacher said we needn't/didn't need to/didn't have to hand in our compositions. |
She asked, “Must I take the medicine?”——> She asked if she had to take the medicine. |
[注]:此处用had to代替must更好 |
8)此外转述中的变化要因实际情况而定,不能机械照搬,如果当地转述,here不必改为there, 动词come不必改为go,如果当天转述yesterday, tomorrow, this afternoon等均不必改变。如: |
Teacher: You may have the ball game this afternoon. |
Student : What did the teacher say, Monitor? |
Monitor: He said we might have the ball game this afternoon. |