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单词 narrator
释义

narrator

or nar·rat·er

[ nar-ey-ter, na-rey‐, nar-uh‐ ]
/ ˈnær eɪ tər, næˈreɪ‐, ˈnær ə‐ /
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noun

a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
a person who adds spoken commentary to a film, television program, slide show, etc.

Origin of narrator

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin narrātor “narrator, historian” see narrate, -or2

Words nearby narrator

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British Dictionary definitions for narrator

narrator
/ (nəˈreɪtə) /

noun

a person who tells a story or gives an account of something
a person who speaks in accompaniment of a film, television programme, etc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for narrator

narrator

A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story. This voice can have a personality quite different from the author's. For example, in his story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe makes his narrator a raving lunatic.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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