anecdote
anecdote 英 [ˈænɪkdəʊt] 美 [ˈænɪkdoʊt]
n. 轶事；奇闻；秘史
名词复数:anecdotes
- A short, amusing true story is an anecdote. You might come back from a crazy spring break with a lot of anecdotes to tell.
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- n. 轶事；奇闻；秘史
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1. There she read an anecdote.
她读到一桩轶事。
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2. She departed from the text to tell an anecdote.
她脱离课文扯到一段轶事上去了。
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3. This research is based on anecdote, not fact.
这项研究是根据传闻，而非事实。
- anecdote (n.) 1670s, "secret or private stories," from French anecdote (17c.) or directly from Medieval Latin anecdota, from Greek anekdota "things unpublished," neuter plural of anekdotos, from an- "not" (see an- (1)) + ekdotos "published," from ek- "out" (see ex-) + didonai "to give" (from PIE root *do- "to give").
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