| 单词 | narration |
| 释义 | narration (once / 1901 pages) n Narration is the act of telling a story, usually in some kind of chronological order. Making up a scary ghost story and relating it around a camp fire is an act of narration. Narration generally means any kind of explaining or telling of something. It is usually used in reference to storytelling. If you've ever watched a television show where one character's voice talks directly to the audience, then you've heard narration. You will often find narration happening in songs where the singer is telling the story of how something happened — like the day he lost his guitar, his truck, his wife, and started singing the blues. WORD FAMILYnarration: narrations+/narrate: narrated, narrates, narrating, narration, narrative, narrator/narrative: narratively, narratives/narrator: narrators USAGE EXAMPLESBut questions of content and narration get much more attention than recent sales trends. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) A drama would be an opera, and a narration would be an oratorio, or a Passion. New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) The rather heavy-handed message — reinforced by Perrin’s spare, soothing narration — is clear, as war and pesticides are unleashed and animals displaced. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1n the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events his narration was hesitant Syn|Hypo|Hyper recital, yarn recounting, relation, telling an act of narration account, report the act of informing by verbal report 2n a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper narrative, story, tale Canterbury Tales an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer Arabian Nights' Entertainmenta collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century tearjerker an excessively sentimental narrative tall talean improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story folk tale, folktalea tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk sob story, sob stuffa sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy fairy story, fairy tale, fairytalea story about fairies; told to amuse children nursery rhymea tale in rhymed verse for children content, message, subject matter, substance what a communication that is about something is about 3n (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth Hyper section, subdivision a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) |
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