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

• 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。
• On pragmatics rules in the reported speech
  试论转述引语的语用规则
• 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。
• 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。
• Thank you for your question about reported speech, which is an area of grammar that often causes problems for students.
  感谢来信询问有关间接引语的问题。很多学生会发现在语法学习中，这是一个难点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。