anecdote

noun

1. 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
2. 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。

1. N-VAR 轶事；趣闻
   An anecdote is 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。
2. N-VAR （无根据的）传闻
   Anecdotes are 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. He shares one anecdote from a student who took his exam a month after finishing CORe last summer.
   他分享了一名学生的故事。去年夏天，这名学生在完成CORe课程一个月后参加了考试。
8. One of my favorite parts of dating is a charming how we met anecdote.
   对于约会，我最钟爱的部分便是我们如何相识这件迷人轶事。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. I think enough time has passed that I can share the following anecdote.
    我想有一件关于Apple的轶事可以拿来谈谈，毕竟它已经过去足够长的时间了。
12. 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。
13. I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.
    我叙述那件轶事，他听了（马上）开怀大笑。
14. 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。
15. I still remembered an anecdote of my childhood.
    我仍然记得童年的一轶事。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. He introduced his speech with an anecdote.
    他说了一则轶闻作为讲话的引子。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. He depart qrom the text to tell an anecdote.
    他没讲课文而讲了一段轶事。
24. He told me some anecdote about our English teacher.
    他告诉我几个关于英语老师的掌故。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. It was a conversation pleasantly coloured with wit and anecdote.
    这是一次充满妙语和轶闻的愉快交谈。
28. 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。
29. 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。

noun

1. short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)