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。
• 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。
• Use reported speech to report questions.
  用间接引语来转述问题。
• 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。
• She reported the president's speech for the newspaper.
  她为这家报纸报导了总统的演说。
• Reported Speech Translation and Transference
  转述语翻译与语言迁移
• 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。
• 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。
• Use reported speech to talk about what someone else said.
  用间接引语谈论其他人说的话。
• 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。