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ashort, oftenfunnystory,especiallyabout something someone has done: (尤指关于某人的)趣闻,轶事He told one or twoamusinganecdotes about hisyearsas apoliceman.他讲了一两件他当警察时发生的趣事。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAccounts and stories - another
- anti-narrative
- be another storyidiom
- bodice-ripper
- brushstroke
- case study
- cautionary tale
- commentary
- lore
- misdescription
- multi-stranded
- myth
- mythic
- running commentaryphrase
- scenario
- shaggy-dog story
- short story
- sob story
- strand
- writesomethingup
See more results » (Definition ofanecdotefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)anecdote| American Dictionaryliteratureashort, oftenamusingstoryabout anevent, usuallyinvolvingaparticularperson: He told somefunnyanecdotes aboutfamouspeople. (Definition ofanecdotefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofanecdoteanecdote All three useanecdoteand narrative to impart to the reader a sense of the lived experience of the poor, ordinary and those deemed anti-social.From theCambridge English Corpus I have therefore sought to identify patterns within a heterogeneous body of sources on scholars' lives - normative blueprints, anecdotes, correspondence, and autobiographies.From theCambridge English Corpus His elegant narrative is often accompanied by interesting anecdotes or folk tunes inspired by the various facets of the migrants' lives.From theCambridge English Corpus This starts out promisingly but unfortunately swiftly descends once again intoanecdoteand assertion.From theCambridge English Corpus His anecdotes lighten the tone of what might be considered more turgid information on rail and road construction, flight paths, plane types and federal regulation.From theCambridge English Corpus The frame-work of the book is the series of class-room lessons introducing fresh grammatical phenomena, followed, where possible, by a rhyme and ananecdote.From theCambridge English Corpus There are countless anecdotes of inventive optimists who succeeded where others failed by imagining waiting customers.From theCambridge English Corpus Ananecdoteabout a patient with strong left hemineglect suggests the involvement of consciousness in this phenomenon.From theCambridge English Corpus Exercises include discussion, role-play, simulation, report writing, negotiating budgets and contracts, consumer surveys, small talk, social arrangements, telling anecdotes, exchanging opinions, and socializing.From theCambridge English Corpus Or, alternatively, they relate anecdotes about insensitive or inappropriate physician behavior, apparently under the impression that "medical ethics" is designed to prevent such behavior.From theCambridge English Corpus Leafing through its pages, one comes across reports, anecdotes and minor controversies as well as sustained discussions in areas like ethics and aesthetics.From theCambridge English Corpus Although they are presented in a jumbled manner the book contains many important insights, telling anecdotes and acute personal observations.From theCambridge English Corpus From the anecdotes of the informants, we infer that anglophones were also a non-negligible presence on the fishing boats.From theCambridge English Corpus It is very rich in ethnographic detail and includes many amusing anecdotes from the field.From theCambridge English Corpus I take these anecdotes for performatives, fashioned in order to level the playing field that comprises both performers and recorder.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/anecdote## |