Why are those years lost to us? One possibility is that memory in humans requires a narrative context.

为何那些年输给了我们？一种可能性是人类的记忆需要一个叙事语境中。

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In narratology, "narrative context" is used to clarify the complicated relations between relater and story in the narrative text.

在叙事学中，叙事情境主要用来阐明叙事文本中叙述者与故事之间的种种复杂关系。

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The style of Mongolian fiction has changed in the new period, mostly embody narrative context, narrative mode, and narrative time.

新时期蒙文小说在艺术形式上出现了嬗变，主要体现在叙述语境、叙事模式和叙事时间三个方面。

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There was also Donkey Kong, which was unlike any of these others: it had a sense of humor, a narrative context, and beguilingly goofy graphics.

NEWYORKER: Master of Play

Even more fundamental is the need for a guiding narrative to explain the context of the entries.

ECONOMIST: High society

Either way, I find the prospect of reading a chapter here and a chapter there divorced from the context of the broader narrative rather unsatisfying.

FORBES: Why I Won't Be Reading George R. R. Martin's New 'Winds Of Winter' Chapter