单词 | narrator |
释义 | narratorn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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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