| 词汇 | indirect speech |
| 释义 | indirect speechWord family nounindirectionindirectnessindirect objectindirect speechindirect taxadverbindirectlyadjectiveindirect Grammar ˌindirect ˈspeech British EnglishBrE, indirect discourse American English (also reported speech) noun [uncountableU] technical SLGa way of reporting what someone said without repeating their exact words. For example, in the sentence ‘Julia said that she didn’t want to go’, the clause ‘that she didn’t want to go’ is indirect speech. Her actual words were ‘I don’t want to go’. 间接引语〔即不引用原话，如Julia said that she didn’t want to go中that she didn’t want to go为间接引语；Julia的原话是I don’t want to go〕 → direct speech Examples from the Corpus indirect speech• Paraphrase and summary of the arguments of other texts correspond to indirect speech. |
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