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

• 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。
• 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。
• He introduced his speech with an anecdote.
  他说了一则轶闻作为讲话的引子。
• 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。
• The point of this little anecdote is this: in any organization, all the players are leaders.
  我提到这件轶事是为了说明这样一个问题，那就是在任何公司中，所有的参与者都是领导。
• 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。
• 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。
• I shared an anecdote that shows another instance of animals showing the way.
  我分享了一个奇闻表明不同的动物情况显示方式。
• I still remembered an anecdote of my childhood.
  我仍然记得童年的一轶事。
• I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.
  我叙述那件轶事，他听了（马上）开怀大笑。