We have to backshift our tenses by one.

将我们的时态向后移动一步。

So let's talk about that backshift in tenses.

所以让我们谈谈时态倒退。

Now we don't backshift the tense when the information is ongoing.

当信息正在进行时，我们不会将时态后移。

The last thing you need to do is to backshift the tense.

你需要做的最后一件事是将时态后移。

If you've studied with an English grammar textbook before, you might have heard this word and thought backshift?

如果你以前用英语语法课本学习过的话，你可能听说过这个词，backshift 是什么？

And the second way, even more confusing I think because we have a backshift in the tense.

第二种方式，我认为更令人困惑，因为我们的时态倒退了。

There are some instances where we don't backshift the tense in reported speech.

在某些情况下，在转述的时候我们不需要变换时态。

And we don't backshift when we're reporting something that happened very recently, then we don't need to change the tense either.

而当我们在转述最近发生的事情时，我们也不需要后移，所以我们也不需要改变时态。

We add a reporting clause, we change the pronouns, we change the time and the place words and we backshift the tense.

我们增加了一个转述句，改变了代词，改变了时间和地点词，并将时态后移。

So we backshift there, even though the meaning is still talking about now and, you know, potentially his future actions.

所以我们在那里倒退，即使现在的意思仍在谈论， 而且，你知道，可能是他未来的行动。