例如:
“Who is it?” Ann shouted.
“I never eat meat,” she explained.
“Sit up,” he commanded, “and hold out your hands.”
当用自己的话转述别人的话时,被转述的部分称为间接引语。这时被引语部分常常是引用动词的宾语。在多数情况下,引语都由连词that引导,但在say, tell等词后可以省略。
例如:He said (that) he had lost the bag.
Tell her I am out.
2. 要根据时态呼应的原则把时态加以调整。
3. 指示代词、时间状语、地点状语和动词也需要作必要的变动。
直接引语如果是陈述句,变为间接引语时,用连词that引导 (that可省略)。例如:
Tony said to me, “ I will leave this book in your desk.”
→Tony told me (that) he would leave that book in my desk.
如果直接引语是表示建议、要求、推测、判断的陈述句,变为间接引语时,可以变为动词不定式、V-ing形式或含虚拟语气的宾语从句。
例如:
Jane said to Tony, “You’d better ask your friends for some advice.”
→Jane advised Tony to ask his friends for some advice.
→Jane suggested Tony asking his friends for some advice.
→Jane advised/suggested that Tony (should) ask his friends for some advice.
2. 一般疑问句、选择疑问句和反意疑问句
直接引语是一般疑问句,变为间接引语时,要用连词whether或if引导,同时把原来的疑问句语序变为陈述句语序。
例如:
The woman asked me, “Can you show me the way to the nearest bookstore?”
→The woman asked me whether/if I could show her the way to the nearest bookstore.
直接引语是选择疑问句,变为间接引语时,通常用连词whether引导,同时把原来的疑问句语序变为陈述句语序。例如:
My friend asked, “Will you come here by bus or by bike?”
→My friend asked whether I would go there by bus or by bike.
直接引语是反意疑问句,变为间接引语时,常由连词whether或if引导,同时把原来的疑问句语序变为陈述句语序。
例如:
He asked, “This math problem is very difficult, isn’t it?
→He asked whether/if that math problem was very difficult.
3. 特殊疑问句
直接引语是特殊疑问句,变为间接引语时,仍用原来的疑问词引导,同时把原来的疑问句语序变为陈述句语序。
例如:
She asked, “Where do you come from, Tom?”
→She asked Tom where he came from.
4. 表示请求、提议、建议或劝告等意义的疑问句
直接引语如果是此类疑问句,变为间接引语时,可以变为动词不定式、V-ing形式或含虚拟语气的宾语从句。
例如:
“Could you please tell me something about the trip?” David said to his sister.
→David asked his sister to tell him something about the trip.
“Why don’t you buy one for yourself?” she asked.
→She advised me to buy one for myself.
→She suggested me buying one for myself.
→She suggested/advised that I (should) buy one for myself.
5. 祈使句
直接引语是祈使句,变为间接引语时,要将祈使句的动词原形变为带to的不定式,并在不定式的前面根据句子的意思加上tell, ask, order等动词。如果祈使句为否定式,则在不定式的前面加not。
例如:
Mrs. Lee said to her, “Please come here again tomorrow.”
→Mrs. Lee asked her to go there again the next/following day.
She said, “Don’t touch my book, Jack.”
→She told Jack not to touch her book.
6. 感叹句
直接引语是感叹句,变为间接引语时,可以用what, how或that引导。
例如:
“What a sunny day it is!” she said.
→She said what a sunny day it was./She said that it was a sunny day.
She said, “How aloud this student sings!”
→She said how aloud that student sang./She said that student sang very aloud.
例如:
“Where there is no trust, there is no love,” said our teacher.
→Our teacher said that where there is no trust, there is no love.
Her father said to them, “She is a good girl.”
→Her father told them she is a good girl.
2. 直接引语中有表示过去某年、某月或某日等具体的时间作状语,变间接引语时,时态一般不变。
例如:
William said, “I was born in 1988.”
→William said that he was born in 1988.
但当直接引语中有以since, while, when等引导的表示过去时间的状语从句,变间接引语时,状语从句中的一般过去时不变,但主句的谓语动词则要改为过去完成时。例如:
She said, “I went there when I was ten years old.”
→She said that she had gone there when she was ten years old.
3. 如果就在当地或当天转述,here不必变为there,动词come不必变为go;yesterday, tomorrow等时间状语也不必改变。
例如:
“Just come here to wait for me after school,” said my mother.
→My mother asked me to just come here to wait for her after school.
“I am now a Chinese citizen,” Henry said proudly.
→Henry said proudly that he is now a Chinese citizen.