He couldn't marry under an assumed name, but he had no intention of letting Nora know his surname. 他不会用假名字结婚的,可是,他不打算让劳拉知道他的姓氏。
As to the reason why the reporting speaker sometimes uses language reports in written discourse, it is assumed that language reports can bring out certain pragmatic function to help to achieve certain communicative intention. 书面文体中语言转述具有一定的语用功能可以帮助其实现某种交际目的,这也正是人们会用到语言转述的原因。