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- a spoken or written account of connected events; a story记叙文; 讲述; 故事：
the hero of his modest narrative.
他朴实描述的主人公。
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- mass noun the narrated part or parts of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue（文学作品中有别于对话的）记叙。
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- mass noun the practice or art of narration叙述; 叙述艺术：
traditions of oral narrative.
口头叙述的传说。
- in the form of or concerned with narration叙事体的; 叙事的：
a narrative poem
叙事诗
narrative technique.
叙事手法。
派生词
narratively
adverb词源
late Middle English (as an adjective)： from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus 'telling a story', from the verb narrare （see NARRATE）.