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单词 narrator
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narratorn.

Brit. /nəˈreɪtə/, U.S. /ˈnɛˌreɪdər/, /ˈnɛrədər/, /nəˈreɪdər/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin narrātor.
Etymology: < classical Latin narrātor a person who narrates < narrāt- , past participial stem of narrāre narrate v. + -or -or suffix. Compare Middle French narrateur (early 16th cent.). Compare later narrate v.
1. A person who narrates or gives an account of something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > narrator
teller1340
expositora1398
accounterc1400
reporterc1405
provinoura1475
recounter1485
relator1588
relater1598
repeater1598
narrator1599
retailer1607
nomenclator1628
enarrator1632
accountant1655
relatist1656
narrater1758
narratrix1796
narratress1798
1599 S. Harsnett Discov. Fraudulent Pract. I. Darrel iii. viii. 209 M. Darrell, (as the Narrator reporteth) had taken the names of threescore persons, who were readie to haue beene deposed, touching the extraordinarie handling of Somers.
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 5 Hee is but a Narrator of other mens opinions.
1675 W. Okeley Eben-Ezer Pref. sig. Aj Every Narrator is under a strong Temptation to Season his Discourse to the Gusto of the time.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. v. 410 Consider whether the Narrator be honest and faithful, as well as skilful.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. ix. 277 ‘I tell you,’ replied the narrator [etc.].
1803 Ann. Rev. 1 301 Of such a narrator the very hostility is not oppressive.
1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 43 He was simply a narrator of plain facts.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 827/1 A lady was holding forth, a born narrator, recklessly lavish of grace-notes and embroidery.
1992 R. M. Davis Mid-lands ii. 13 The real story was found not in the genealogical charts but in the family saga of which my aunt Cary has been custodian and narrator.
2. spec.
a. The voice or persona (whether explicitly identified or merely implicit) by which are related the events in a plot, esp. that of a novel or narrative poem.By some writers this is reserved as a term in Literary Criticism for an explicitly personified or characterized narrative voice.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller
tale-tellera1387
talesman?a1505
historian1586
fabulator1604
tales-master1656
narrator1722
spinner1770
storier1816
Scheherazade1851
yarn-spinner1865
yarn-teller1891
yarn-slinger1897
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets sig. A1v Persons in the poem. Bard, the Narrator. Duniwhistle, Father to the Bristle, Joukum and Bawsy.
1811 C. Lamb in Reflector iv. 342 His way of telling a story, for its eager liveliness, and perpetual running commentary of the narrator happily blended into the narration, is perhaps unequalled.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xx. 66 I must not, from the faithful narrator, degenerate into the partial eulogist.
1932 C. Morgan in H. J. Massingham & H. Massingham Great Victorians 70 The opening of ‘The Prisoner’, telling how narrator and jailer visit a dungeon and speak with a female prisoner confined there, is..fictitious.
1958 Notes & Queries Feb. 85/2 Eschewing the novelist's omniscience, Hawthorne had his narrator cloud in vague terms the nature of Moodie's early crime.
1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy iii. 67 The narrator creates, for perhaps a page and a half, the illusion that we are really there.
b. A character in a play or film who relates part of the plot to the audience. Also: a person who speaks a commentary in a film, television broadcast, etc.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character
underpart1679
persona muta1714
travesty1732
soubrette1753
old man1762
small part?1774
breeches-part1779
character part1811
fat1812
chambermaida1828
fool?1835
raisonneur1845
ingénue1848
villain of the piece1854
stock character1864
feeder1866
satirette1870
character role1871
travesty1887
thinking part1890
walk-on1902
cardboard cutout1906
bit1926
good guy1928
feed1929
bad guy1932
goody1934
walkthrough1935
narrator1941
cameo1950
black hat1959
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > actors or characters > [noun] > other actors
lens louse1928
stand-in1929
baddie1934
goody1934
narrator1941
voice actor1958
playback singer1963
voice-over1966
voice actress1974
body double1981
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 20 Narrator, person whose role is to deliver, in either his own or an assumed character, narrative passages in a radio-dramatic programme.
1948 E. Lindgren Art of Film vi. 112 There may be..portions [of film]..in which we see the action of the story, but hear the words of the narrator, which thus become..a form of commentary.
1960 Times 3 Oct. 16/2 For Ahlsen clearly employs the ‘narrator’ technique in order to allow his protagonist not only to act out the dramatic scenes..but also to speak his thoughts aloud in monologue form.
1984 A. Copland & V. Perlis Copland: 1900–42 xiii. 302 As a play, Our Town had certain technical features that were ‘filmic’: flashbacks, a narrator, and fast scene changes.
2001 Guardian 24 Aug. (G2 section) 18/1 Whether losing three legions is enough to bring a superpower to its knees..pronounced narrator Jim Carter in his most sonorous tones.
2001 Guardian 24 Aug. (G2 section) 18/1 ‘It seems absurd to think it can all be traced back to a single battle. But it can,’ Jim assured us in full knowing narrator voice. Hmmm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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