So powerful is his belief in a handful of “master narratives” that he sometimes shoehorns facts to fit his theories.

南丁格尔先生对少数“主人公视角”的故事深信不疑，以至于在某些情况下，他试图用部分事实牵强附会地证明自创的理论。

Citizenship as something greater than myself: We are, I think, individually and collectively, rewriting the master narrative of America.

公民身份比我自己更重要：我认为，我们个人和集体都在改写美国的主要叙事。

Morrison said she wrote the book to illustrate what happens when a person surrenders to what she called " the master narrative." " Definitions, " Morrison said, " belong to the definers, not the defined."

莫里森说她写这本书是为了说明当一个人屈服于她所谓的“主叙事” 时会发生什么。 “定义，” 莫里森说，“属于定义者， 而不是被定义者。