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单词 narrative
释义

narrative

/ˈnarətɪv /
noun
1A spoken or written account of connected events; a story: a gripping narrative...
  • These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country.
  • Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved.
  • Many narratives have also been written in more conventional language and forms by Aboriginal authors.

Synonyms

account, story, tale, chronicle, history, description, record, portrayal, sketch, portrait, statement, report, rehearsal, recital, rendering
1.1 [mass noun] The narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue: the dialogue and the narrative suffer from awkward syntax...
  • These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind.
  • It spools out and out of my mouth, narrative, dialogue and commentary.
  • I was brought in to, essentially, write some voice-over dialogue and narrative for it, to buttress the story.
1.2 [mass noun] The practice or art of telling stories: traditions of oral narrative...
  • The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity.
  • It didn't just object to certain kinds of story, but to narrative in general as a promoter of illusion.
  • In the realm of mythic narrative, the same stories keep getting reincarnated.
1.3A representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values: the coalition’s carefully constructed narrative about its sensitivity to recession victims...
  • The bigger picture, however, is of a prime minister and a government that want to be more self-confident but are frustrated at the failure of their 'narrative' to find a more receptive audience.
  • Such expectations may have been unrealistic, but it was part of an overall narrative about the Liberal Democrat path to government which depended not only on Liberal Democrat progress, but also Conservative decline.
  • Labour needs to find a new narrative. And the Conservatives must stick to their story.
adjective
In the form of or concerned with narration: a narrative poem narrative technique...
  • But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays.
  • I would have probably continued reading this for the narrative techniques.
  • But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays.

Derivatives

narratively

adverb ...
  • The play is based on narratively coherent stories, but the language is like a dream and half-invented, so the audience has to do a lot of piecing together for themselves.
  • How did television, then, in its liminal position on the borders of the home, narratively organize the spatial boundaries of inside and outside, local and global?
  • The severely under-lit, narratively incomprehensible, and primitively directed syrup-soaked piece of trash is so bad it's sweet.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus 'telling a story', from the verb narrare (see narrate).

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