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单词 narrative
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narrative
(nærətɪv )
Word forms: narratives
1. countable noun
A narrative is a story or an account of a series of events.
...a fast-moving narrative.
Sloan began his narrative with the day of the murder.
Synonyms: story, report, history, detail  
2. uncountable noun
Narrative is the description of a series of events, usually in a novel.
Neither author was very strong on narrative.
...Nye's simple narrative style.
Collocations:
complex narrative
He has opted to write the long complex narrative mainly in iambic pentameter for 'the sweep, the flow of verse'.
Times, Sunday Times
None of these, however, have combined complex narrative and character development with the production techniques used here.
Times, Sunday Times
He meticulously reconstructs the spirit of the times and deftly unfolds its complex narrative of intrigue, introducing well-known and lesser-known players.
The Times Literary Supplement
Sport was merely one thin strand in a far richer and more complex narrative, a narrative that involved all the messiness and heroism of politics in its truest sense.
Times, Sunday Times
Actually, it's a far more complex narrative.
Times, Sunday Times
multiple narratives
The book leaps abruptly from era to era and country to country, with multiple narratives framed within one another.
Times, Sunday Times
With the reality under the new law just beginning, there are still, for the time being, multiple narratives being forged.
The Times Literary Supplement
Instead of a single truth, we have multiple narratives.
Times, Sunday Times
There are multiple narratives taking place with each combatant in varying scenes.
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The novel uses both first and third person voices, whilst employing a variety of literary techniques such as multiple narratives and flashback.
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narrative drive
Mostly, it's the pace of the performances and the discursive writing that leads to both its emotional depth and its narrative drive.
Times, Sunday Times
That would all be fine if the film had some sort of narrative drive to hold our interest.
Times, Sunday Times
But that range comes at the expense of narrative drive.
Times, Sunday Times
The hour was highly entertaining: vivid characters, moral dilemmas, and a narrative drive much drama would envy.
Times, Sunday Times
Real dreams, of course, don't adhere to logic, let alone narrative drive and plotlines.
Times, Sunday Times
narrative flow
But his analysis and narrative flow are excellent, especially when we reach the modern era.
Times, Sunday Times
The impact of the story has been fatally damaged, as has the narrative flow.
Times, Sunday Times
I just wish she had left out a few and given the book more narrative flow.
Times,Sunday Times
There would be no need to tamper greatly with the narrative flow.
Times, Sunday Times
His books of the post-war period combined simple words and vibrant images in the manner of comics, and retained the propulsive narrative flow he had mastered as a film-maker.
The Times Literary Supplement
narrative poem
He even took the time, we learn, to write a narrative poem on the causes of erectile dysfunction.
The Times Literary Supplement
Literary works: 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems.
The Sun
Love poems, laments, epigrams, admonitory (didactic) and narrative poems.
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His poetry emphasizes romantic verse, long narrative poems, and ballads.
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The short, narrative poems generally focus on glorifying the concept of courtly love through the adventures of their main characters.
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narrative possibilities
In particular, they discuss the narrative possibilities that time travel can add to your novel.
Times, Sunday Times
She may love the narrative possibilities of forensic science, but she hates 'blood and maggots'.
Times, Sunday Times
Narrative possibilities emerge through his engagement with island life and mythology, but a veil of mystery remains.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's a gruesome moment, and opens up vast narrative possibilities about the apartment block's menacing secrets.
Times, Sunday Times
Relatively swiftly, however, the narrative possibilities of the emerging medium expanded and began to confound easy taxonomies.
The Times Literary Supplement
narrative progresses
The narrative progresses by means of jump cuts, or artful (and unlikely) links between these characters.
The Times Literary Supplement
As his narrative progresses, however, his motives become increasingly suspect.
Times, Sunday Times
While this realist narrative progresses, hints of another, far stranger realm intrude.
The Times Literary Supplement
As his narrative progresses, it becomes apparent that lids of other kinds have been clamped down: hidden horrors surface in quietly appalling ways.
Times, Sunday Times
As the narrative progresses, the author elaborates on the parallels between these time frames, and the stories begin to blur.
The Times Literary Supplement
narrative sequence
This initiates a series of stories within the story, and the narrative sequence constantly crosscuts between past and present.
The Times Literary Supplement
But arguably his cleverest and most original mode was what he called 'storypages', cartoons without words presented in a narrative sequence of six, eight and sometimes even 12 separate drawings.
Times, Sunday Times
In another first, the interior lights are arranged to come on in a narrative sequence, beginning with the door handles, spreading into the footwells and drifting along the dash.
Times, Sunday Times
The purpose of the cartoon itself, as expressed through narrative sequence expressed through images which follow one another, was only imposed slowly.
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In this situation, the viewer plays an active role as he/she creates the narrative sequence by evolving in the space.
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narrative story
The understated, artfully matter-offact prose jangles with overtones which fill every recess of the narrative story with vivid colour and movement.
The Times Literary Supplement
Coles writes with purpose, using narrative story to engage readers in the intricacies of character and the human condition.
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Once all are located, the fragments self-assemble into a working object that can be used in a puzzle elsewhere in accordance with the narrative story.
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I can't say much about it yet but it's sort of like a film, but not with one narrative story.
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In a narrative story, honkadori are often found in the form of a poem spoken by one of the characters.
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narrative strand
The elders' response to modernity comprises a third narrative strand.
The Times Literary Supplement
That particular narrative strand has gone out of the game, up there at the pinnacle, and lingers on only as an inherited memory in the reporting.
Times, Sunday Times
Another narrative strand relates to cardinals appointed in pectore, or secretly.
The Times Literary Supplement
There are four narrative strands in the novel, but - here's the catch - they never interlock.
Times, Sunday Times
The story flows naturally out of the dance and weaves narrative strands that have poetry and logic.
Times, Sunday Times
narrative structure
Its meditative quality means that at times the weight of its symbolism threatens to crush the flimsy narrative structure.
Times, Sunday Times
Hall skilfully avoids a conventional narrative structure in favour of impressionistic tableaux, her brush strokes delicately adding layer upon layer to her characters.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead of boasting the quaint old world charms of story, character and narrative structure, the hyped hit exists solely in its own marketing noise.
Times, Sunday Times
That it all goes wrong goes without saying, but thanks to stylish cinematography, febrile performances and a circular narrative structure, the story never feels like a retread.
Times, Sunday Times
He sees this role as substantial, though the choice of a narrative structure makes it difficult for him to develop the analysis needed to demonstrate it.
The Times Literary Supplement
narrative style
The five authors display highly original approaches in the handling of character, story, imagery, language and their overall narrative style.
ST
When we meet him next, the narrative style has changed to a long question-andanswer session with a faceless interrogator.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's well written, in a crisp narrative style.
Times, Sunday Times
There are no startling revelations, but there are plenty of shrewd insights and the lucid narrative style never flags.
The Times Literary Supplement
He seems aware of this risk and chooses to address it with a narrative style that might be described as elegantly discreet.
The Times Literary Supplement
narrative technique
He saw this as crucial because he felt that narrative technique ultimately takes us back to the metaphysics of the novelist.
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This can be seen in the montage imitating narrative technique, soap opera and science fiction elements.
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He characterizes its convoluted narrative technique as postmodern tricksiness.
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In particular, critics have focused on the writer's complex narrative technique, subtlety, and use of irony.
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Its box of tricks includes singing and tapdancing, physical narrative techniques and a bag of props from popular cinema, including lightsabers and velociraptor head masks.
Times, Sunday Times
narrative theme
There are three variations on the narrative theme.
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It kind of goes with the personal hero narrative theme of the series.
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The developers wanted to make a game where exploration was the central mechanical and narrative theme.
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Distinct from a story world, these environments can be in close proximity and even overlapping, and may have quite different narrative themes.
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narrative thread
There was no narrative thread, no smart one-liners.
Times, Sunday Times
This one had a narrative thread.
Times,Sunday Times
Unfortunately, many of their scenes simply pad out the drama and loosen an otherwise fascinating narrative thread.
Globe and Mail
The director never lost hold of the narrative thread, however, and kept the comic and serious aspects in perfect equilibrium.
Times, Sunday Times
The opera loosely weaves the stories together into a narrative thread.
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narrative unfolds
The narrative unfolds with a leisurely confidence that allows unhurried opportunities for character and motivation to emerge.
Times, Sunday Times
As the narrative unfolds the characters' different quests and objectives begin to combine in unexpected ways.
Times, Sunday Times
Though a certain theatricality creeps into the script, the narrative unfolds with a slow-burning power.
Times, Sunday Times
As the narrative unfolds and a series of betrayals are exposed there are several cleverly handled moments of revelation.
Times, Sunday Times
As the narrative unfolds, uncertainty increases.
The Times Literary Supplement
narrative voice
Generally the form fosters a complicity between the author, the narrative voice he or she creates, and the reader.
The Times Literary Supplement
The impish, irreverent narrative voice forms the novel's most striking feature.
The Times Literary Supplement
She developed a highly original lyrical and narrative voice, in a key latent in her fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
The novel depends for its success on the narrative voice, but herein lies a problem.
Times, Sunday Times
The author's consistent narrative voice leaves the reader feeling as empty as the characters.
Times, Sunday Times
official narrative
Somewhere along the line, however, the official narrative changed.
Times, Sunday Times
In the early 1990s the collapse of communism gave rise to a brief flowering of free speech and individual liberty - and also, so the official narrative goes, to chaos.
Times, Sunday Times
Many people find the official narrative reassuring.
The Times Literary Supplement
Increased safety, higher yields and a raft of other desirable changes, runs the official narrative, will come when the farms are larger and easier to keep an eye on.
Times, Sunday Times
Central to the breakdown of official narratives in academia was the constellation of ideas falling under the broad umbrella of postmodernism.
The Times Literary Supplement
personal narrative
Cash planned to intersperse her songs with short, personal narrative sections.
Times, Sunday Times
Would he have got so far if his personal narrative were not so sad?
Times, Sunday Times
With this new generation of comic artists, there’s a movement towards embracing the personal narrative.
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This personal narrative moves the book away from political reportage and allows the themes of human mortality and connection to take centre stage.
The Times Literary Supplement
Next book around, expect some personal narrative.
Christianity Today
shape a narrative
Defence lawyers have to be good listeners - to shape a narrative out of often incoherent testimony.
Times, Sunday Times
The whole deadly apparatus shapes the narrative, but in a manner all the more effective for being understated.
The Times Literary Supplement
As the verbal punches fly, so will the tweets — snarky, approving, jocular and disgusted — instantly shaping the narrative of the debate.
Times, Sunday Times
The witness of surviving texts, occasionally supplemented by architectural data and rules established at councils, synods and visitations, shapes the narrative, which grows upwards and outwards with the surviving evidence.
The Times Literary Supplement
Nevertheless, forever the story-maker, she takes on the task of shaping a narrative that will give her back herself and offer a new way of living.
The Times Literary Supplement
simple narrative
Next, simple narrative questions had to be addressed.
Times, Sunday Times
He sees people complicating a very simple narrative.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a lot of information and maybe people don't want to hear that because they want to distil it down to simple narrative.
Times, Sunday Times
Musically some of them are quite ornate, considering the relatively simple narrative.
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These memoirs were condensed to a simple narrative; but they are regarded as contributions of high value.
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standard narrative
The standard narrative remains remarkably consistent: mortally wounded but aesthetically inspired, the late stylist rages against the dying of the light with all the pathos of a plangent swansong.
The Times Literary Supplement
In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style of plays.
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Their labour often depended heavily on figures absent from the standard narratives - artisans and craftsmen, wives and sisters, brokers and informants from foreign countries.
The Times Literary Supplement
The series has been described as a popular iconoclasm, a challenge to standard narratives.
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third-person narrative
The inspired use of free indirect style means that the third-person narrative perspective can swing about, unsettling us.
Times, Sunday Times
The third-person narrative voice drifts casually - and somewhat disconcertingly - from past to present, and occasionally to the future tense.
The Times Literary Supplement
This powerful book marshals dozens of convincing characters, each distinctive voice tinting the third-person narrative, cross-fading place and time.
Times, Sunday Times
Stylistically the novel retains a third-person narrative with smatterings of dialects every so often to indicate the focus.
The Times Literary Supplement
Out of this third-person narrative a picture emerges of a city suspended in melancholy, left with 'nothing whatsoever, apart perhaps from the disarming bureaucratic regularity of the falling rain'.
The Times Literary Supplement
traditional narrative
The show moves from traditional narrative painting through filmic interpretation or performance to jumbled installation.
Times, Sunday Times
There are passages of traditional narrative, such as those concerning the biography of his family, and there are literary innovations.
Times, Sunday Times
That contradicts the traditional narrative about how monuments typically come about.
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The workshop 'will rescue the words 'traditional narrative' from the dusty wardrobe' and 'look at how to make it new'.
Times, Sunday Times
His mentor also gave him the confidence to think outside the traditional narrative structures that were taught on the course.
Times, Sunday Times
travel narrative
One section consists of student publications, surprisingly mature in style, but not otherwise remarkable, except for the 1891 travel narrative.
The Times Literary Supplement
This genre-defying book has elements of local color, short story, travel narrative, personal memoir, and cultural analysis.
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The institutes often cover a range of themes, from the basics of the creative nonfiction genre to writing memoir to travel narrative.
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In these two clashing frameworks must exist the various modes in which the events are narrated: travel narrative, romance, diplomatic report, encomium, and medical treatise.
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These are exceptional times, and we are encouraging readers to consider other types of book: light-hearted travel anthologies and travel narratives.
Times,Sunday Times
visual narrative
It was a strange disjuncture, the visual narrative hinting at a post-modern playfulness that the plodding music couldn't muster.
Times, Sunday Times
So they are inserting themselves into that visual narrative.
Times, Sunday Times
But with the rise of social media and the cameraphone, we have got used to creating a visual narrative of our lives.
Times, Sunday Times
Those in the eye of public scrutiny are still under the illusion that visual narrative can be controlled over a sustained period.
Times, Sunday Times
By eschewing the clarity associated with high-definition, they evoke a sort of nostalgia, a visual narrative that owes much to the language of cinema.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 故事
Japanese: 体験談
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