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单词 biography
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biography
noun[CorU]
uk
/baɪˈɒɡ.rə.fi/us
/baɪˈɑː.ɡrə.fi/
B1
thelifestoryof apersonwritten by someoneelse:
传记
Hewrotea biographyofWinston Churchill.他撰写了温斯顿‧丘吉尔的传记。
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  • This biographyoffersa fewglimpsesof hislifebefore hebecamefamous.
  • Her biographyrevealedthat she was not asrichas everyonethought.
  • The biography was abitof arushjob.
  • The biography is anattempttouncovertheinnerman.
  • The biography iswovenfrom the manyaccountswhichexistof things she did.
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(Definition ofbiographyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

biography| American Dictionary

biography
noun[C/U]
us
/bɑɪˈɑɡ·rə·fi/
literature
thestoryof thelifeof apersonwritten by someoneelse, or theareaofliteraturerelatingtobooksthatdescribesuchstories:
[C]Hewrotea biography of Lincoln.

biographical

adjective[not gradable]us
/ˌbɑɪ·əˈɡræf·ɪ·kəl/
Thefuneralelegyprovidesatreasureof biographicalinformationabout Shakespeare.
(Definition ofbiographyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbiography

biography
The strength of the notion of the culturalbiography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.
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The algorithm takes a set of earthly biographies as input and produces a set of improved resurrection biographies as output.
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However, an annotation of the essays, together with a more detailedbiography, would have increased its value for subsequent scholarship.
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Thisbiographypresents a figure who deserves to be better known and appears to have been an unusually attractive and amiable character.
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This book purports to be abiography, but the writer faced very considerable difficulties in researching it.
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This book permits the reader to see the many parallels between the biographies of the two lingua francas and the positions adopted by their elites.
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Despite these differences a full employmentbiographyguaranteed a pension worth at least 70% of a wage earner's last net wage.
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There are other indications, however, that thebiographyof a house did not necessarily end with the end of habitation of the farmstead.
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It is also important that we can compare the contrasting biographies of houses, cemeteries, land divisions and enclosures.
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The fascination with this new form of cerebral biographies grasped anatomical experts as well.
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The exemplar biographies and contrasting employment histories clearly reveal considerable variability in the pension outcomes and several complexities in the social division of occupational welfare.
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Clearly, the notion of durability is related to the stable location of the farmstead, whose culturalbiographyspans multiple household cycles and building phases.
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These are essentially intellectual biographies followed by references to their major works, and secondary readings.
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This collectivebiographyis a painstaking and very informative reconstruction of the lives of a number of these reformist intellectuals.
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Then we do improvisations of the main events in all the characters' biographies.
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