| 单词 | in the first person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the first person b. in the first person: using this class of pronouns or verb forms; in Literary Criticism with reference to a narrative form or voice in which the first person pronoun (usually the singular) is used to relate a story. Cf. person n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adverb] narratively1629 in the first person1663 1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours ii. 18 I am not us'd To speak in the First person. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 43 I shall no longer trouble the Story with a Relation in the first Person, which will put me to the Expence of ten thousand Said I's, and Said he's. 1795 Analyt. Rev. Feb. 166 The story is written in the first person. 1843 Graham's Mag. Oct. 188/1 To save roundabout, I'll tell the story in the first person, as it was told to me. 1880 J. Morris New Nation I. ii. 104 In Irish the verbs are quoted in the first person present indicative, thus ‘mealaim, I deceive’. 1989 Times 20 Sept. 18/2 No family saga but a slow-moving psychodrama, written in the first person. 2010 New Yorker 25 Jan. 51/2 The story is narrated in the first person by a character who looks..exactly as Gaiman did at the time. < as lemmas |
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