注意：即使是上面提到的表示看法(Opinion) 的動詞，《That•That•That —That用法的分析》p72-74認為在下列情況下，也不發生轉移否定。

(1) 當think等動詞的前面有副詞修飾，或者有強調作用的助動詞do/ does/ did時，不發生轉移否定。例如：They firmly believe that their blood would not shed in vain.他們堅信他們的血不會白流。

I do think you shouldn’t go there. 我確實認為你不該去那里。

“Do you really expect that I didn’t notice the number? It was 2704.”“你真的認為我連車號都沒注意嗎？車號是2704。”

(2) 當think等動詞相互構成并列謂語或同其他動詞構成并列謂語時，不發生轉移否定。例如：

I think and believe that we can not hit the target by the end of the year. 我認為且相信，我們在年底前是不能完成指標的。

I think and hope that I’m not disturbing you too much. 我想且希望我這樣不會過分地打擾你。

(3) 當think等動詞以一般過去時、過去進行時、完成時或完成進行時出現時，不發生轉移否定。例如：

I imagined that you wouldn’t be able to come.我還以為你們會不來了呢。

He guessed that she hadn’t had enough to eat.他估計她是沒有足夠吃的。

I was thinking that you wouldn’t be going with us.我想你不會和我們一起去了。

I’ve often thought high life doesn’t agree with us.我常常這樣認為，豪華的生活和我們是格格不入的。

I’ve been thinking that Estell cannot be a condition of your inheritance, if she was never mentioned by your guardian.我認為你的保護人從來沒有提到過埃斯特拉，那么她不可能成為你繼承財產的條件。

(4) 當think等動詞以插入語的形式出現時，不發生轉移否定。例如：You don’t mind my smoking, I suppose. 我想，我抽煙你不會介意吧。

Conditions, I think, are not yet ripe for it. 條件嘛，我覺得還沒成熟。

She won’t have any objection, I reckon. 我估計她不會有什么意見。

(5) 在當今英語中，think等動詞為一般現在時形式時，也可直接否定從句，而且這種顯現越來越普遍。例如：They think (that) there is no way but to “pile up the agony”, to intensify the sense of danger and responsibility… 他們認為，要使人們在思想上更加感覺到它的危險性和責任感……除了“夸大事實的令人痛苦的描寫”以外就沒有其它方法了。

I guess you don’t have time to go out now you have young children.

I reckon they will not come this evening.

5.3.4  that從句中的時態

在英語復合句中，根據“時態一致(Sequence of Tenses) ”， that從句中的時態通常要受主句時態的限制，從而表示出兩者之間的時間關系。

1. 若主句中謂語動詞的時態為“一般現在時”、“現在完成時”和“一般將來時”， that從句謂語動詞中的時態可以按照其涉及的時間選用任何適當的時態，即不受主句中謂語動詞時態的限制。例如：   

I think he often does it./he is doing it.he has done it./he will do it./he has been doing it./he did it yesterday./he was doing it then./he had done it by that time./he had been doing it till then./he will be doing it then./he will have done it by noon./he will have been doing it several hours by the time you return.

I have heard /It is so./It was so./It will be so./It has ever been so.

2. 若主句中謂語動詞的時態為“一般過去時”，則that從句中謂語動詞要選用與過去有關的時態。可分為以下情況：

(1) 如果that從句中的動作發生在主句的動作之前，則that從句中的動詞可用過去完成時、過去完成進行時或一般過去時。若用一般過去時，that從句中通常有表示絕對過去的時間狀語。例如：

She said she had been waiting for me a long time.

He said he hadn’t seen any enemy troops when he left the village.

The foreign guests told me that they had learnt a lot during their stay in China.

The boy said was born in 1975.

(2) 如果that從句中的動作和主句的動作同時發生，則that從句中的動作用一般過去時或過去進行時。例如：

I thought you were free today.

I was told that they were designing an educational CD-ROM.

(3) 如果that從句中的動作發生在主句的動作之后，則that從句中的動詞用過去將來時、過去將來進行時或過去將來完成時。例如：

She promised that she would give me whatever help I needed.

They said they would be listening to a report on current affairs.

They assured us that they would have accomplished the task in three days.

然而，that從句中不遵守“時態一致”的現象也是屢見不鮮。歸納起來有以下情況：

1. that從句表示的是客觀真理、客觀事實、格言或其它不受時間限制、影響的客觀存在的情況。例如：

Long ago, people didn’t know that the earth moves round the sun.

When she was a child, she knew that the Yangtze is the longest river in China.

I say/said that a rolling stone gathers no moss.

注：如果that從句表示的是一個已被否定的過去的信念時，謂語動詞應該用一般過去時。例如：

Ptolemy held that the sun went round the earth.

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