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narrative

/nar-uh-tiv/US // ˈnær ə tɪv //UK // (ˈnærətɪv) //

叙述,叙事,叙述性,叙述性的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
    • : a book, literary work, etc., containing such a story.
    • : the art, technique, or process of narrating, or of telling a story: Somerset Maugham was a master of narrative.
    • : a story that connects and explains a carefully selected set of supposedly true events, experiences, or the like, intended to support a particular viewpoint or thesis: to rewrite the prevailing narrative about masculinity; the narrative that our public schools are failing.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : consisting of or being a narrative: a narrative poem.
    • : of or relating to narration, or the telling of a story: My English teacher's narrative skill makes characters seem to come to life.
    • : Fine Arts. representing stories or events pictorially or sculpturally: narrative painting.Compare anecdotal.

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Examples

  • So much for the narrative about his best days passing him by — for now, at least.

  • Contrary to the accepted narrative about how to build a championship contender, the Heat have gotten to this stage with historically limited playoff experience and an unusually deep ensemble cast of contributors around star Jimmy Butler.

  • Svetlana, like Selin, is interested in language as a tool for building narratives, and in the idea of constantly telling a story about oneself.

  • When you see a burnt building, that is helping the wrong side of the narrative.

  • Even if you accept those terms, our own review raised issues with how the game develops its narrative.

  • For his part, Bratton is disappointed but not surprised that the same narrative is already being mapped onto Fry and Spencer.

  • Traditionally, popular history is almost purely driven by narrative.

  • The other narrative is of mobility in the service of ambition.

  • A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

  • The opening of the battle narrative begins on—get this—page 266!

  • It is not, however, the incident in itself that is now referred to, but only the formality ascribed to it in the narrative.

  • As they walked along, he listened with trembling, half-incredulous hope to Jos's interpretation of Aunt Ri's voluble narrative.

  • A verbal narrative has of course in itself nothing similar to the scenes and events of which it tells.

  • At this part of Lorenzo's narrative, a cry, unutterable in words, burst from the engloomed but steadfast bosom of his auditor.

  • "I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.