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

• 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。
• Now Reuters reported a highly critical speech by Jobert in the National Assembly attacking the United States for fraternizing with that man.
  路透社现在报道说，若贝尔在国民议会发表了一篇尖锐的批评性演说，攻击美国同此人打得火热。
• Second, while traditional approaches to the study of speech reporting tended to focus on the syntactic changes, researchers today have increasingly turned their attention to the discourse pragmatic functions of reported speech.
  其次，传统的研究历来偏重转述引语的形式变化，但是，近年来人们越来越多地把注意力转向其语篇和语用功能。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The analysis shows that multiple voices are introduced into discourse by three major systems of linguistic resources: reported speech, modality and concession.
  分析表明，新闻语篇的对话性主要通过言语转述、情态、让步三大常用的语言资源系统实现的。
• 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。
• Reported Speech Translation and Transference
  转述语翻译与语言迁移
• Use reported speech to report questions.
  用间接引语来转述问题。