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单词 narrate
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Definition of narrate in English:

narrate

verb nəˈreɪtˈnɛrˌeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Give a spoken or written account of.

    the story is narrated by the heroine
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was also an interdenominational event and readers from both church communities narrated the passion story.
    • Along with other guests, she too will speak and narrate her experiences.
    • While there are a lot of opportunities for quiet reflection, meditation, narrating one's life stories and listening to those of others, this is by no means any religious cult or group.
    • The story is narrated in flashback by Louis, in a letter written from his prison cell.
    • Barely three months later in New York, while narrating the story to a group of friends, did I discover that I had been fleeced again.
    • Yet what marks her most is that this former slave woman character narrates her story to her children and ensures that it is passed down.
    • And then you would hear a voice begin to narrate the story.
    • Sometimes, stark images can speak for themselves and even narrate untold stories.
    • I think this is because of the difficulties inherent in the narrative, namely it's difficult to follow the golden rule of writing (Show Don't Tell) when your main character is narrating the story.
    • Andrews narrates a passionate account of one of the most controversial affairs in American history.
    • I shall narrate a trivial incident which presaged the shape of things to come.
    • Asked how things are, she answers by narrating her life story.
    • She uses the first person because she's narrating the story.
    • And somehow, even though we know Joe gets out alive (he's narrating the story after all) we're on the edge of our seat wondering if he does make it.
    • There is no action on the stage, the events being narrated in blank verse.
    • They are also narrated in the present tense, but in an iterative present.
    • It is an intelligent, enlightening account of disputes, narrating the advance and progress of medicine.
    • He narrates how he fanatically read, trained and thought of it all his waking hours.
    • There were tears of gratitude in her eyes as she narrated her experience.
    • He narrated how his wife disappeared for more than an hour from the prayer session.
    Synonyms
    tell, relate, recount, give an account of, unfold, set forth/out, describe, detail, sketch out, portray, chronicle, give a report of, report, relay, retail, delineate, rehearse, recite
    voice-over
    1. 1.1 Deliver a commentary to accompany (a film, broadcast, piece of music, etc.)
      the series is narrated by Richard Baker
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In fact, he narrates the film and is the only person, aside from the children and their families who appears in film.
      • In the same year Reeve narrated a film about the lives of people living with disabilities.
      • Each tape is well organized and beautifully narrated in language that should be easy for most listeners to understand.
      • Well, we have trailers here, including the teaser and television spots narrated by Orson Welles.
      • The series is narrated by the Welsh journalist and will be shown on Sundays at 7.30.
      • Although he continued to write and narrate the films, he was no longer calling the shots in the editing room or with corporate sponsors.
      • The director narrates the film as though she is making a home movie, and ultimately that's what she has accomplished.
      • Since making the film, I've narrated a documentary about tigers, which is a way of helping, because it sheds light on the plight of the animals.
      • Several times in the film he narrates in this manner.
      • The miniature megastar is to narrate a film about life on the International Space Station.
      • The local television presenter narrates this programme, which includes poetry and music linked to the county.
      • The journalist and broadcaster narrates a personal history of his adopted home.
      • The woman narrating the piece said that women were not safe anywhere, that there was little even the police could do about it, and crimes against women were rising.
      • Short of the director himself, there is nobody else you would want narrating this commentary track.
      • Sadly, this monosyllabically narrated featurette adds nothing to one's insight of the film.
      • The film is narrated collectively by a group of neighborhood boys, now older, who idolized and idealized the five girls.
      • The director then narrates a location map feature, giving background information about the homes and places used in the film.
      • The film is narrated by the laconic narrator that Disney used a lot then.
      • The filmmaker narrates the film himself, telling us of his contemplation of mortality while on his Saharan trek.
      • The heroine, Anna, is played by a singer and a dancer, the former narrating Anna's story as she travels around America in search of money to build a home for her family.

Derivatives

  • narratable

  • adjective
    • For it is through Lanyon's ‘narrative’ as it is written both in his letter to Utterson and ‘on his face’ that the text introduces the transformation of Jekyll into Hyde as a narratable event.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is Jim's ‘inward pain’ that makes his life narratable and, conversely, the natives not narratable in Marlow's eyes.
      • However, in a gesture that underlines sociality,he prefers instead to argue that the narratable self desires this story from the mouth of another (person).
      • Lives are narratable as coherent in terms of the categories language makes available.
      • Those metonymies repeat some disruption of order that incites the narratable.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin narrat- 'related, told', from the verb narrare (from gnarus 'knowing').

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight
 
 

Definition of narrate in US English:

narrate

verbˈnerˌātˈnɛrˌeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Give a spoken or written account of.

    the voyages, festivities, and intrigues are narrated with unflagging gusto
    the tough-but-sensitive former bouncer narrates much of the story
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Barely three months later in New York, while narrating the story to a group of friends, did I discover that I had been fleeced again.
    • Andrews narrates a passionate account of one of the most controversial affairs in American history.
    • I shall narrate a trivial incident which presaged the shape of things to come.
    • While there are a lot of opportunities for quiet reflection, meditation, narrating one's life stories and listening to those of others, this is by no means any religious cult or group.
    • It was also an interdenominational event and readers from both church communities narrated the passion story.
    • And somehow, even though we know Joe gets out alive (he's narrating the story after all) we're on the edge of our seat wondering if he does make it.
    • Asked how things are, she answers by narrating her life story.
    • I think this is because of the difficulties inherent in the narrative, namely it's difficult to follow the golden rule of writing (Show Don't Tell) when your main character is narrating the story.
    • Sometimes, stark images can speak for themselves and even narrate untold stories.
    • She uses the first person because she's narrating the story.
    • Along with other guests, she too will speak and narrate her experiences.
    • There were tears of gratitude in her eyes as she narrated her experience.
    • There is no action on the stage, the events being narrated in blank verse.
    • The story is narrated in flashback by Louis, in a letter written from his prison cell.
    • He narrated how his wife disappeared for more than an hour from the prayer session.
    • Yet what marks her most is that this former slave woman character narrates her story to her children and ensures that it is passed down.
    • And then you would hear a voice begin to narrate the story.
    • They are also narrated in the present tense, but in an iterative present.
    • It is an intelligent, enlightening account of disputes, narrating the advance and progress of medicine.
    • He narrates how he fanatically read, trained and thought of it all his waking hours.
    Synonyms
    tell, relate, recount, give an account of, unfold, set forth, set out, describe, detail, sketch out, portray, chronicle, give a report of, report, relay, retail, delineate, rehearse, recite
    1. 1.1 Provide a spoken commentary to accompany (a movie, broadcast, piece of music, etc.).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The journalist and broadcaster narrates a personal history of his adopted home.
      • Several times in the film he narrates in this manner.
      • Since making the film, I've narrated a documentary about tigers, which is a way of helping, because it sheds light on the plight of the animals.
      • Sadly, this monosyllabically narrated featurette adds nothing to one's insight of the film.
      • The local television presenter narrates this programme, which includes poetry and music linked to the county.
      • The director narrates the film as though she is making a home movie, and ultimately that's what she has accomplished.
      • The film is narrated collectively by a group of neighborhood boys, now older, who idolized and idealized the five girls.
      • The director then narrates a location map feature, giving background information about the homes and places used in the film.
      • In the same year Reeve narrated a film about the lives of people living with disabilities.
      • The heroine, Anna, is played by a singer and a dancer, the former narrating Anna's story as she travels around America in search of money to build a home for her family.
      • Short of the director himself, there is nobody else you would want narrating this commentary track.
      • The miniature megastar is to narrate a film about life on the International Space Station.
      • The woman narrating the piece said that women were not safe anywhere, that there was little even the police could do about it, and crimes against women were rising.
      • Well, we have trailers here, including the teaser and television spots narrated by Orson Welles.
      • The film is narrated by the laconic narrator that Disney used a lot then.
      • In fact, he narrates the film and is the only person, aside from the children and their families who appears in film.
      • Each tape is well organized and beautifully narrated in language that should be easy for most listeners to understand.
      • Although he continued to write and narrate the films, he was no longer calling the shots in the editing room or with corporate sponsors.
      • The series is narrated by the Welsh journalist and will be shown on Sundays at 7.30.
      • The filmmaker narrates the film himself, telling us of his contemplation of mortality while on his Saharan trek.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin narrat- ‘related, told’, from the verb narrare (from gnarus ‘knowing’).

 
 
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