单词 | narrate |
释义 | narrate (once / 148 pages) v When you tell a story or describe something out loud, you narrate. You might hire a well-known actor to narrate your documentary film about circus elephants. One way to narrate is to comment on or describe visual images — photographs or scenes in a film, for example. You can also narrate a story simply by relaying the details aloud. In books, a character sometimes narrates the story as well. It appears that narration, or the action of telling a story, came before narrate, from the Latin root narrare, "to tell, relate, or recount," or literally, "to make acquainted with." WORD FAMILYnarrate: narrated, narrates, narrating, narration, narrative, narrator+/narration: narrations/narrative: narratively, narratives/narrator: narrators USAGE EXAMPLESIn “20th Century Women,” the five main characters periodically narrate their own and one another’s biographies. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) He also narrated episodes of the “Underdog” cartoon series. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) As a voice actor, he narrated the cartoon “Underdog” and played the Heat Miser in the animated “The Year Without a Santa Claus.” Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v provide commentary for a film, for example Hyper inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to 2v narrate or give a detailed account of Syn|Hypo|Hyper recite, recount, tell relate give an account of cracktell spontaneously yarntell or spin a yarn rhapsodise, rhapsodizerecite a rhapsody inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
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