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

• The moral of the anecdote is: A problem which seems difficult could have a simple, unexpected solution.
  这个佚事的寓意在于：一个看似很困难的问题，其解决方案可能超乎简单并出人意料。
• This week I have an anecdote to share with you all that is very special to me.
  这个礼拜，我想和大家分享我个人很特别的轶事。
• He told us an amusing anecdote of the president's childhood.
  他告诉我们总统幼年时代的一则很逗笑的趣闻逸事。
• 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。
• I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.
  我叙述那件轶事，他听了（马上）开怀大笑。
• 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。
• 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。
• But I attributed to Hotelling an anecdote that is widely used but was probably never used by Hotelling himself.
  但在文章中，我把人们广泛引用的一个例子归到霍特林头上，而霍特林本人可能从未引用过。
• You may want to include a joke, anecdote or interesting fact to grab the audience's attention.
  在这段话中，你要说一个笑话、奇闻奇事或趣事来直接引起听众的注意。
• 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。