early 15c., from Old French narracion "account, statement, a relating, recounting, narrating, narrative tale," and directly from Latin narrationem (nominative narratio) "a relating, narrative," noun of action from past participle stem of narrare "to tell, relate, recount, explain," literally "to make acquainted with," from gnarus "knowing," from PIE suffixed zero-grade *gne-ro-, from root *gno- "to know" (see know).
权威例句
1. Its story-within-a-story method of narration is confusing.
其故事套故事的叙事方法让人觉得很糊涂。
2. He has recorded the narration for the production.
他录制了这部作品的解说词。
3. The richness of his novel comes from his narration of it.
他小说的丰富多采得益于他的叙述.
4. The bare narration of the fact took two hours.
单是这事实的叙述就花了两小时.
5. As the crew gets back from lunch, we can put your narration on it right away.