"There's nothing to be afraid of," Father told his child.

“没有什么可怕的，”父亲告诉他的孩子。

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Howell laughed and told him that he'd lived in the Lorelei as a child, that his own father had once had Nando's job.

豪厄尔笑了，告诉他童年时自己就住在这里，自己的父亲曾经做的就是南多的工作。

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Yet the perspective is Stephen's—it is ascribed to the main character as a child, to Stephen's retrospective experience of the oral narrative situation when his father told him stories.

视角是“史蒂芬的”——通过作为主人公的一个孩子讲述的，是史蒂芬回顾他的父亲告诉他的这个口头故事的经验叙述。

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My first encounter with North Africa was as a child, when my father told fascinating, if unnerving, tales from his wartime stops in Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran in 1943, courtesy of the U.S. Air Force, but I had never been there myself.

NPR: Historian Robert Satloff

He knows that he must first acknowledge that his mother was not just a victim of his father (the narrative he told himself when growing up) but a perpetrator of child abuse, too.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages