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Narrative
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。
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。
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。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers.
叙事是最好的麻醉剂或镇静剂之一。
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。