anecdote

英 [ˈænɪkdəʊt]

美 [ˈænɪkdoʊt]

n.  逸事; 趣闻; 传闻

复数：anecdotes　

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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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He listened to this anecdote about the president's childhood.
  他听着这段关于总统幼年时代的轶事。
• An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.
  有一件轶事可以说明日本工人对企业的忠诚是多么强烈。
• He told me some anecdote about our English teacher.
  他告诉我几个关于英语老师的掌故。
• I still remembered an anecdote of my childhood.
  我仍然记得童年的一轶事。
• 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。
• We like to talk about the anecdote of our college life when we get together.
  我们聚在一起时喜欢谈论大学生活的轶事。
• That may have been the end of the anecdote, but not of its significance for me.
  这件轶事好象已经过去了，但是它对我的深远意义却没有终结。