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narrator

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++nar·ra·tor /nəˈreɪtə $ ˈnæreɪtər, næˈreɪtər, nə-/ ●○○ noun [countable]  1. ATELLthe person who tells the story in a book or a play 叙述者,讲述者2. the person who describes or explains what is happening in a film or television programme but who is not seen 〔电影或电视节目中的〕解说员,旁白员
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narratorAs a narrator I have much to learn.Verbivore starts and ends with Mira as narrator.Then to each narrator is assigned a time and place of the writing of his contribution.On other occasions we detect language which can only be that of James, the third-person narrator.Flaubert's narrator enters Emma Bovary's consciousness from time to time, to describe events from her point of view.Here are the characters and the narrator begins.Ishmael, the narrator of the story, tells the reader why he went to sea.Nog is a mysterious itinerant who sells the narrator a foam-rubber octopus, and whose name he adopts as an alias.The narrator, returning to the box shortly afterwards, finds that the signalman has been run over by a train.
nar·ra·tor nounChineseSyllable
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narrator
narrator /nəˈreɪtə $ ˈnæreɪtər, næˈreɪtər, nə-/ noun [countable]
1. the person who tells the story in a book or a play
2. the person who describes or explains what is happening in a film or television programme but who is not seen


nar·ra·torBrE /nəˈreɪtə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /nəˈreɪtər/ 🔊 nouna person who tells a story, especially in a book, play or film/movie; the person who speaks the words in a television programme but who does not appear in it (书、戏剧或电影中的)叙述者,讲述者;(电视节目中的)幕后解说员,旁白员a first-person narrator第一人称叙述者

biography, blockbuster, book, character, editor, narrator, novel, plot, publish, title