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

• 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。
• Free Indirect Speech is one of the major types of reported speech.
  自由间接话语是转述语的主要类型之一。
• Use reported speech to report questions.
  用间接引语来转述问题。
• When recounting a story, or an encounter with someone else, it's now quite common to hear the speaker introducing each piece of reported speech with the word'like '.
  在重述自己和别人的一则故事或遭遇时，如今十分常听到说话者用”like“这个词来复述谈话中的每句话。
• 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。
• In comparison, the New York Times pay more attention on faults of people; reported disaster richer in depth; more concerned about the economic impact of the disaster; enriched their coverage through the diversification of news sources; and mutual coordination between speech versions and coverage.
  相较而言，《纽约时报》注重探寻天灾中的人祸；报道更富深度；更加关注灾难的经济影响；通过多元化的新闻来源丰富其报道；并以开放的言论版呼应灾难报道。
• On the above three bases, we first discuss how the reported speech can realize society function.
  基于以上三点，本文先对引语的如何能够实现其交际功能作了论述。
• 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。
• 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。
• Reported Speech Translation and Transference
  转述语翻译与语言迁移