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单词 autobiography
释义
autobiography
noun
uk
/ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.rə.fi/us
/ˌɑː.t̬ə.baɪˈɑː.ɡrə.fi/
[C]
abookabout a person'slife, written by thatperson:
自传
TonyBlair's autobiography was abestseller.托尼·布莱尔的自传曾十分畅销。
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biography
[U]
theareaofliteraturerelatingto suchbooks:
自传体写作
Hislifestoryisrecountedin twofascinatingvolumesof autobiography.两部引人入胜的自传描述了他的生平经历。
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autobiographer
autobiographical
(Definition ofautobiographyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

autobiography| American Dictionary

autobiography
noun[C/U]
us
/ˌɔt̬·ə·bɑɪˈɑɡ·rə·fi/
literature
thestoryof a person’slifeas written by thatperson, or theareaofliteraturerelatingtobooksthatdescribesuchstories:
[U]Thebookwas amixtureoffamilyhistoryand autobiography.
(Definition ofautobiographyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofautobiography

autobiography
Critics often applaud rock autobiographies that go at least partially ' against type'.
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First, rock autobiographies typically disclose previously uncirculated or private stories from an ' insider' point of view.
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On a more general level, this book points to the perennial difficulties that confront historians who try to incorporate autobiographies in their studies.
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Not surprisingly, readers generally want to read new stories too, seeing them as a positive feature of rock autobiographies.
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Indeed, this process shapes one of the criteria by which they judge rock autobiographies.
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In the first session participants wr ite and share language autobiographies.
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Even where less tendentious autobiographies are involved, a lifetime's reading is a heterogeneous business that must often defy the powers of an autobiographer's memory.
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Her evidence is drawn from a huge variety of plays, letters, prose fictions, biographies, autobiographies, and journalism.
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All of these autobiographies have the character of survival stories.
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However, a careful comparison of the two autobiographies, and of how the authors represent their teachers, can be a very instructive exercise.
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In other instances, women are portrayed in the autobiographies almost as an intrusion into the main narrative of the text.
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The value of these autobiographies may, quite often, lie in what they omit to mention.
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In this way, of course, the reviewing of rock autobiographies resembles the reviewing of rock music.
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The work simultaneously reinforced and negated the rhetoric of resistance and revolution espoused in the first two autobiographies, dulling its own effectiveness as a tool of social reform.
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Their data come from published autobiographies of highly literate immigrants that describe linguistic and psychological transformations as the immigrants adapt to new social and linguistic realities.
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