单词 | to make narration |
释义 | > as lemmasto make narration b. The action or an act of narrating or recounting something; the fact of being narrated. Formerly esp. in †to make narration. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling taling1382 storyingc1449 narrationc1450 tale-telling1556 storytelling1681 narrative1843 yarn-spinning1867 narrativity1971 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 189 (MED) Tribulacioun made me thus hire narracioun [Fr. narration]. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xix. 176 It behoueth ouer longe narracion that of alle them wolde descryue the gretenes. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxiv. 108 Fantasy, and estymacyon truely, And memory, as I make narracyon, Eche upon other hath occupacyon. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 44 The short time I have wil scars suffice to make a simple and bare narration of things. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 292 Of which Absurds, I'le make no more narration. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a1v Narration, doubtless, preceded Acting, and gave Laws to it. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1937) I. vi. iii.132 The observations which we make when the narration of the fact is ended. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV vii. 118 This narrative is not meant for narration, But a mere airy and fantastic basis. 1844 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. x. 189 Mr. Dickens wants the earnest good-faith in narration which makes Balzac so enchanting. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1871) 191 [Dante] the great master of laconic narration. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxiii. 377 He..had amused her often with the narration of some adventure which Griffiths under the seal of secrecy had imparted to him. 1991 Amer. Speech 66 243 Only recently has the use of non-standard English become acceptable as a mode of narration. < as lemmas |
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