Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

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Frost as a narrator, in these great poems I'm describing, frames his people's words minimally, with few bits of narrative information.

作为一个叙事者，弗罗斯特在我所说的那些伟大的诗歌中，最低程度地用框架框住人的语言，夹杂着少许叙事的信息。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's moments like these when that omniscient narrator lives up to its name, that sense of omniscience that we might associate with God.

在这种时候,万能的叙述者才不负其盛名，这种全能全知让我们联想到了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And Hartman made sense of the seemingly chaotic and confused movement of the narrator's imagination here.

哈特曼使叙述者在这里混乱无序的想象,变得能够理解，有所深意。

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On 267, this is in one of these parenthetical passages where the narrator is commenting on what he's just given account of in his experience.

67页，这是一段插叙,叙事者在评论,他诉说过的经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

some chemistry class will show up in here, and someone will wonder what that is, and Barth will have done his work, or we will have done Barth's work for him. Now, let me ask you another question. Who is the narrator of "Night-Sea Journey"?

这里将会上化学课，有人会想,这到底是什么，巴斯将完成他的工作，或是我们将为他完成工作，现在，我来问你们第二个问题，《夜航》的叙述者是谁？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Here that omniscient narrator, as when that narrator looks in to Haze's mind, offers you a reading of the sky and its separation from the minds of the characters that suggests, or makes you look for, kinds of structure.

在这里，万能的叙述者读解Haze的内心时，给了我们关于星空的注解,角色们迥然不同的想法,暗示了我们，或者说使得我们，去寻找一种结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选