时态一致

 1) 如果从句所叙述的为真理或不变的事实，则永远用现在时。
　At that time, people did not know that the earth moves.
　He told me last week that he is eighteen.


　 2) 宾语从句中的助动词ought, need, must, dare¹ 时态是不变的。
　He thought that I need not tell you the truth.