narrative tense

常见例句

In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.
在叙述过程中，间接引语的动词通常用过去式。
In stream-of-consciousness texts, past perfect tense serves to shift perspective space, switch narrative focus and reverse temporal space.
在意识流语篇中，它具有切换视点空间、转移叙述焦点、回移时间空间的语篇构建功能。
Present tense is a unique narrative way in the modern historical fiction. It extracts the historical background, makes the story show on the real stage, and the long old past have a modern sense.
现在时态是现代历史小说独有的历史叙述方式，它抽去历史背景，将故事放入现实舞台上演，从而使久远的过去获得现代意味。

Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.
我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。
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As the narrative moves between past and present—between past tense and present tense and between recollected events and dramatised scenes—the spreading bleakness is lightened by enjoyable observations of Edinburgh and a background cast of students, university bureaucrats and overly cheerful television presenters.
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