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叙述
Narrative
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers.
叙事是最好的麻醉剂或镇静剂之一。
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
不再有小说或非小说;只有叙事。
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
叙事身份参与了故事的运动，处于有序与无序的辩证关系中。
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
我运用了我的直觉。其实很容易想象你的感受。我只需要讲述故事。
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
我爱随机性。我仍然喜欢在一个正在进行的故事中间喊一声。痛苦或快乐，狂喜。
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
如果你真的要在一个故事中加入一句话，你也必须要有一个完整的故事，否则它就不能算作是叙述。
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
史诗不是把一系列的英雄故事拼凑在一起，调整它们之间的差异，并把它们变成一个连续的故事。
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
在艺术中，丑闻是一种虚假的叙述，是一种伪装而非揭露的烟幕。当我们不知道自己在看什么时，我们会反应过度。
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
我并没有想太多我写这些书的目的，除了我知道我想要我的下一部小说是一种不那么传统的形式，而不是直接的叙述。
I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.
我不是个特别勇敢的孩子，我想，因为我有叙事的头脑，因为我的头脑自动地想到任何可能发生的可怕的事情。
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
人们需要一个神圣的故事。他们必须有一种更大的目标感，以某种形式存在，无论多么理智。他们将找到一种方法来保持祖先的灵魂活着。
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.
很多文学科幻小说都是关于创造丰富、详细、在社会层面上有意义的世界。我们将为人们创造一个世界，然后在这个世界里呈现一个故事。
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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
叙事建构了人物的身份，也就是我们所说的故事的身份。正是故事的同一性造就了人物的同一性。
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.
每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面，从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉，另一方面，人们有责任服从道德命令，而在目前看来，道德命令可能相当不方便。
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.
我认为这忽略了一些有趣的叙述事实，那就是它实际上并没有很好地发挥作用，消除多样性实际上是一个很好的方法来让一个物种和它的个体变得不那么强壮。