核心畫面
You can picture a narrative as events threaded onto a single line: this happened, then because of that this happened, and that is why it ended here. It is not the events themselves but the telling of them in an order that holds together.
可以想成「把發生過的一連串事情，串成一條線講出來」。重點不在事情本身，而在串的方式——先講哪一件、後講哪一件、哪一件…更多收起
可以想成「把發生過的一連串事情，串成一條線講出來」。重點不在事情本身，而在串的方式——先講哪一件、後講哪一件、哪一件是因為哪一件才發生的。所以同一場車禍，警察的 narrative 和司機的 narrative 可能完全不一樣：事實一樣，串法不同。原始詞典資料7 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。
narrativeadj/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/
- 1
Telling a story.
- 2
Overly talkative; garrulous.
- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
- 3
Of or relating to narration.
- the narrative thrust of a film
- There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.
narrativenoun/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/
- 1
The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
- 2
That which is narrated.
- 3
A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.
- changing, controlling the narrative
- Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
- 4
A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
- The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.
- The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
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。