anecdote

英 [ˈænɪkdəʊt]

美 [ˈænɪkdoʊt]

n. 逸事; 趣闻; 传闻

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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 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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
He told me some anecdote about our English teacher.
他告诉我几个关于英语老师的掌故。
As Nisbett complained, Once you've got the anecdote, you can throw away the data.
正如尼斯贝所抱怨的，一旦变成了奇闻轶事，你就可以忽略数据了。
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。
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。
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。