概叙即概括性的叙述,在写记叙性的文章时,有时遇到不得不交待的次要情节,便非用概叙不可。莫泊桑《我的叔叔于勒》中,当菲利普发现渡轮上卖牡蛎的老头像是自己的弟弟于勒时,他的太太克拉丽丝要他去向船长打听一下,证实那老头是否就是于勒。接下去有这样一段文字:父亲客客气气地和船长搭上话,一面恭 Narratives are generalized narratives. When you write a narrative article, you sometimes encounter sub-plots that you have to confess. In Maupassant’s My Uncle Yule, when Phillips discovered that the old head of the oysters on the ferry was his younger brother, Yule, his wife, Clarice, asked him to ask the captain to confirm whether the old man was Yu Le. Then there is such a paragraph: The father politely catches up with the captain.