The physical layer and the discourse meaning layer of a written narrative text define different space time dimensions.

书面叙事文本的物质层面与话语意义层面分别表征不同的时空。

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If this story must be written, we must have the courage to eliminate all adjectives that tend to excite wonder: they would achieve the opposite effect, of impoverishing the narrative.

倘若我们要说这个故事，首先要有勇气摒除一切可能引人惊奇的形容词，因为形容词也许只能引起反效果，让叙述者词不达意。

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Those are plays though, and all English narrative poems, including all of Shakespeare's narrative poems, they had all been written in rhyme, either long verse paragraphs of rhymed heroic couplets or in intricately rhymed stanzas.

但那些是戏剧，所有的英语叙事诗，包括所有莎士比亚的叙事诗，都是押韵的，不管是英雄双韵体的大段诗篇,还是精巧押韵的诗节。

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Dr Paul Pettitt, a senior lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology at Sheffield University, has written a narrative to accompany the stamp series.

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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).

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Written as as first-person narrative, Rum Diary chronicles a sweaty, perpetually drunken summer spent by one Paul Kemp in Puerto Rico during the 1950s.

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