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Germany votes to boost rescue fund 德國票 以提高救助基金
BERLIN -- German lawmakers(立法者、國會議員) on Thursday overwhelmingly (壓倒性)approved expanding the powers of the eurozone(歐元區) bailout fund, a major step toward tackling the sprawling debt crisis, in a vote that also helped strengthen Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government.
新聞英文的語法
常用進行式：
n 為了強調是現在發生的事實，新聞英文常用進行式來表現。
A group of women are defending their right to raise their children in a society that ostracizes unmarried mothers.
固定的表現法be quoted as saying：
n 新聞報導經常需要引述消息來源，這是為了強調報導的客觀性和正確性，另外也可以如實呈現事件當事人所說的話，以及增加報導的權威性(authority)。因此在新聞英文寫作上就會大量使用直接和間接引述的句型。
n 表示引用某人發言的間接敘述，意思是 “引述某人的談話稱….” 。
n Saying 也可以用telling、claiming、voicing等字取代，以避免太過使用同一單字。
All 40 passengers were killed when a tourist bus skidded off a road in the Himalayan foothills and plunged into a river, police officials were quoted as saying Wednesday.
直接引述 (direct quotations)
在引用高級政府官員或其它重要人士所表達意見時通常會直接引述，以提升新聞的可信度，而且需要加上引號(quotation marks)，有時同一段話也可以分開引述，如下例:
“There are concerns about China’s military buildup,” Rice told a television interviewer from Hanoi, Vietnam, where she is attending a regional economic summit with President George W. Bush. “It’s sometimes seemed outsized for China’s regional role.” (AP)
另外，在直接引述消息來源時也常用「…quoted + 消息來源 + as saying」(主動語態)，或用「消息來源 + was/ were quoted as saying」(被動語態)為固定套語，如下例:
“After Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe took office in Japan, our relationship has improved,” Zhang was quoted as saying. (AFP)
引述章沁生的話說:「自從日本首相安倍晉三就職以來，我們的關係已有改善。」
間接引述 (indirect quotations)
n 間接引述無需對消息來源的言論原文照錄，而是作一種概括性的摘要，寫作上也不用加上引號。通常用動詞said, added, announced, declared, explained, pointed out, reported等或介系詞according to來表明是誰提供的資訊，如下例:
In a pitch to lawmakers and the American people, Bush said the United States will keep the onus on the Iraqi government to take charge of security and reach a political reconciliation. (AP)
n 另外一種在引述消息來源或新聞機構時的特殊句構，是使用逗號分隔開新聞事件和消息來源，形成兩個子句。而且在日期或星期前習慣省略介系詞。如以下例句:
Japan has joined the United States and South Korea in agreeing not to recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. (AP)
n 但是在一般文體的寫作中，會於上例句中加上連接詞that引導名詞子句，使新聞事件成為消息來源所說said的受詞。另外，一般寫作會在日期前加上介系詞on。改寫後句子如下:
The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Japan has joined the United States and South Korea in agreeing not to recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons state.
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