很常见的说法是:to put it in ***'s words,然后说出某人所说的话。
比如:
To put it in Braude's words, love is a word made up of two vowels, two cosonants, and two fool.
用Braude的话来说,love这个词由2个元音、两个辅音和两个傻瓜组成。
To put it in Humpty Dumpty's words, when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
用Humpty Dumpty的话说,我用一个词,它的意思就是我要它表达的意思,不多也不少。
Humpty Dumpty是《爱丽丝漫游奇境记》中的人物。
日常用语:In one's words
论文中:It has been demenstrated by XX(人名) that
it is just as sb said that......
in some one's words
According to someone: