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

• 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。
• On pragmatics rules in the reported speech
  试论转述引语的语用规则
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。