anecdote

英 [ˈænɪkdəʊt]

美 [ˈænɪkdoʊt]

n.  逸事; 趣闻; 传闻

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牛津词典

noun

• 逸事；趣闻
  a short, interesting or amusing story about a real person or event
  1. amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor
     关于他短暂演员生涯的趣闻逸事
• 传闻
  a personal account of an event
  1. This research is based on anecdote not fact.
     这项研究的根据是传闻而非事实。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 轶事；趣闻
  Ananecdoteis a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
  1. Pete was telling them an anecdote about their mother...
     皮特正在给他们讲一件他们母亲的趣闻。
  2. He has a talent for recollection and anecdote.
     他在记忆力和讲述趣闻轶事方面颇具天赋。
• N-VAR （无根据的）传闻
  Anecdotesare individual accounts of something that are not reliable evidence.
  1. The image of the fox as a pest is grossly exaggerated in anecdote and folklore.
     狐狸的害人精形象在传闻和民间故事中遭到严重的夸大。

英英释义

noun

• short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

双语例句

• Every time he does something horrendous, think how much you will enjoy retelling the anecdote later on.
  每当他做出一些可怕的事情，就想一想你随后讲述这段轶事的时候将是多么有趣。
• He has a talent for recollection and anecdote.
  他在记忆力和讲述趣闻轶事方面颇具天赋。
• He depart qrom the text to tell an anecdote.
  他没讲课文而讲了一段轶事。
• To begin with, it was an anecdote he shared only with friends or new acquaintances.
  一开始，这只是跟朋友和初相识的人分享的一段轶事。
• I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.
  我叙述那件轶事，他听了（马上）开怀大笑。
• The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
  主席说了得体的掌故使每个人心情轻松。
• But we love stories, and forget of anecdote is not data.
  不过我们热爱故事，而忘记了这些花边新闻、奇闻趣事并不是资料。
• He introduced his speech with an anecdote.
  他说了一则轶闻作为讲话的引子。
• In an interview with David Letterman, Carter passed along an anecdote of a translation problem in Japan.
  卡特在接受大卫莱特曼的采访时，说了一个在日本发生的翻译问题的轶事。
• He shares one anecdote from a student who took his exam a month after finishing CORe last summer.
  他分享了一名学生的故事。去年夏天，这名学生在完成CORe课程一个月后参加了考试。