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A griot is a West African whose work is to keep a people’s past alive. A griot may recite family lines, old wars, praise, and the meaning of a name, often with music. In many communities this is not a hobby; it is a role passed down, and people go to the griot when they need the story told right. English borrowed the word from French griot. English has no everyday that carries the same job, so we keep griot. It is not a general word for any narrator, and it is not an insult. Say it with respect, like other titles for a specialist.
格里奧（西非的口傳史家、說書人）
組成Borrowed from French griot. That is the sure English story; do not invent an older English family for it.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
griotnoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹi.oʊ/
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A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
- Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.
- When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots. Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the griot.
griotnoun詞源 2/ˈɡɹi.oʊ/
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cookingfoodlifestyleA Haitian dish of fried pork.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。