narrate

vt. 叙述；给…作旁白

vi. 叙述；讲述

中文词源

narrate 叙述

来自拉丁语narrare,告知，解释，来自PIE*gno,去知道，了解，词源同can,know.引申词义叙述，告知。字母g脱落，-r,拉丁语现在不定式格，比较affair,fact.

narrate: narrate: [17] To narrate something is etymologically to ‘make it known’. The word comes from Latin narrāre ‘give an account of’, which was derived from gnārus ‘knowing’ and is hence related to English ignore, recognize, and, distantly, know. English acquired the derived noun narration [15] considerably earlier than the verb (which was widely condemned in the 18th century for its inelegance), and it could be that narrate represents a back-formation from narration rather than a new introduction directly from the Latin verb.
=> ignore, know, recognize
narrate (v.): 1748, back-formation from narration or else from Latin narratus, past participle of narrare "to tell, relate, recount" (see narration). "Richardson and Johnson call it Scottish" [OED], a stigma which kept it from general use until 19c. A few mid-17c. instances are traceable to Spanish narrar. Related: Narrated; narrating.

1. The three of them narrate the same events from three perspectives.: 他们三人从三个不同的视角讲述了同样的事件。

3. The dreams are so idiotic that I can hardly bring myself to narrate them.: 这些梦非常无聊,我简直不大好意思讲.

5. Behind it is the narrate gap between prophase modernity and anaphase modernity.: 其背后正是前期现代性遭遇后期现代性所产生的叙事裂隙.