"Narrative" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 gù shi narrative / story / tale
 xù shù to relate (a story or information) / to tell or talk about / to recount / narration / telling / narrative / account
 xù shì narrative
 jì xù to narrate / narrative
 xù shù xìng narrative
 jù qún discourse / group of sentences with clear meaning / narrative
 Guó yǔ Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
 wù yǔ monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form)
 zōng shù to sum up / a roundup / a general narrative
 jiǎn shù to outline / to summarize / to sketch / summary / brief description / concise narrative / in a nutshell / briefly
 pǔ xiě to compose (a piece of music) / (fig.) to create, by one's actions, a narrative (generally one that can be recounted with pride)
 xì shuō dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest
 tōng shǐ narrative history / comprehensive history / a history covering an extended period
 jì xù wén narrative writing / written narration
 xù shì shī narrative poem
 zhuàn biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
 pū xù to explain all the details / complete narrative
 yuán circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
 biàn wén a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)
 zhēng zhuàn narrative of long journey / campaign record
 fū chén to give an orderly account / a thorough narrative
 shùn xù chronological narrative
 xù shù shì bào gào narrative report
  programme narrative
 shī huà notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
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