英语论文中,我先介绍了莎士比亚,介绍他的时候是说heisa.还是hewasa.还有,介绍他作品的内容时,用什么时态比较好?

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英语论文中,我先介绍了莎士比亚,介绍他的时候是说he is a .还是he was a .
还有,介绍他作品的内容时,用什么时态比较好?

Answer 1

纯粹是介绍他的话,过去的用过去式,现在的用现在式,例如:
过去:William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright.
(因为他已死)
现在:He is often called England's national poet.
(他现在仍被称为national poet)
如果在作品评论之内,用现在式.
例如"他用了XXXX的技巧","He uses the technique of XXXX"
Use of Literary Present Tense
Abstracts use the present tense because we assume texts speak to the present even if their authors are dead and/or wrote the words in the past.As a result,write about the text and/or author as if they were composing the words at the moment.
意思就是
这是一种抽象的现在式用法,我们读者看作品时假设作品现在直接向我们交代它们自己,(即使作者已死,成为过去了).所以,写关於作品和作者时,当成作者正在我们眼前创作.
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