reported speech

英 [rɪˌpɔːtɪd ˈspiːtʃ]

美 [rɪˌpɔːrtɪd ˈspiːtʃ]

n.  间接引语

牛津词典

noun

• 间接引语
  a report of what sb has said that does not use their exact words
  1. In reported speech, ‘I'll come later’ becomes ‘He said he'd come later’.
     在间接引语中，I'll come later变为He said he'd come later。

柯林斯词典

• 间接引语
  Reported speechis speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.

in AM, use 美国英语用 indirect discourse

双语例句

• In all of those examples, although I am telling you what happened and what was said, I am not using reported speech.
  在以上所有的例句中，尽管我是在讲述所发生的事情和说话内容，但是一个间接引语也没有用到。
• On the base of the theory system of direct speech and indirect speech, we study the reported speech of fiction.
  理清了有关直接引语和间接引语的理论体系之后，本文对小说中的引语使用进行了细致分析。
• The statistical results of some preliminary experiments for isolated Chinese words are reported, which can be used as reference in the phonemes recognition of Chinese speech.
  文中还给出了应用该算法对汉语单音所作的部分实验统计结果，可供进一步开展基于音素或音位的汉语语音识别研究参考。
• It is reported that the President made a wonderful speech at Tsinghua University.
  据报道总统在清华大学作了精彩的讲演。
• Owing to the essential role it plays in news reporting, reported speech demands special attention in any serious analysis of news discourse.
  人们在分析英语新闻语篇时特别关注其中的转述言语。
• Tannen explores the conversational functions of reported speech in oral communication.
  Tannen探讨的是口头会话中转述语的功能。
• As The Economist went to press, on the eve of the king's birthday, he was reported to be unwell, and unable to deliver his usual annual speech to the nation.
  《经济学人》发稿之前，在普密蓬国王生日的前夜，他说身体不适不能发表他的年度讲话。
• Certain grammatical rules must be followed when describing a conversation in reported speech.
  在转述对话时必须遵循一定的语法规则。
• If you don't pause, it sounds like you are using reported speech, and so then your grammar is wrong, because you haven't changed the question grammar.
  如果不停顿，听起来就会像是在用间接引语，如此一来就会犯语法上的错误，因为你没有改变语序。
• Use reported speech to talk about what someone else said.
  用间接引语谈论其他人说的话。