| 直接引语(Direct speech) | 间接引语(Indirect speech / Reported speech) |
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| 直接引语是将别人的原话或陈述以原封不动的方式引述出来,并使用引号将其括起来。直接引语通常用于在口头与文本中直接引用别人的精确措辞。 | 间接引语是通过对别人的原言进行转述或概括,而不是逐字逐句地引述。在间接引语中,通常使用动词如 "say"、"tell"、"ask" 等来引导引述,同时也不使用引号,所有的间接引语都是宾语从句。 |
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引用的方式取决于具体的情境和文体。间接引语更为常见于书面英语中(报道),而直接引语常用于口语和直接引述他人的原话。
情态动词的变化
| 从句原情态动词(直接引语) | 从句变后情态动词(间接引语) |
| can | could |
| will | would |
| be going to | |
| may | might |
和时态变化的原理一样,情态动词“直接引语”变为“间接引语”时,时态需要向“前”(前面的、过去的)推一步。理解直接引语变间接引语后可以加深时态变化就是动词的变化。更深入的了解情态动词时态变化的型式。
课文情态动词间接引语的时态
| 采访内容 | 报道内容 |
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Are you really going to retire, Miss Marsh? I may. |
Miss Marsh told reporters she might retire. 转述的原话:I might retire.主语:told 引起的过去式 |
| I can't make up my mind. | She said she couldn't make up her mind. said引用情态动词的变化,主语由my变为了her |
| I will have to ask my future husband. | She said she would have to ask her future husband. 由一般将来时的will变成了would |
| He won't let me make another film. | She said her future husband would not let her make another film. 由will not 变为了 would not |
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Your future husband, Miss Marsh? Yes. Let me introduce him to you. His name is Carlos. |
Then she introduced us to Carlos! 这里没有情态动词,所以是实义动词的改变。 |
| We're going to get married next week. | and told us they would get married next week. was/were going to 太长了,所以使用would替代 |
| 直接引语 | 间接引语 |
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| Miss... told reporters, "I may retire". | Miss... told reporters she might retire. |
| She said, "I can't make up my mind" | She said she couldn't make up her mind |
| She said, "I will have to ask my future husband". | She said she would have to ask her future husband. |
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| She said, "He won't let me make another ..." | She said her future husband wouldn't let... |
- let sb. do : 让…做
- Let us go.
- Let me see.