anecdote

• n. 轶事；奇闻；秘史

前缀an-, 没有。前缀ec-,同ex-, 向外。词根don，给予，见donate, 捐赠，过去分词dot.

希腊前缀an-表否定，ecdote在一起表things given out，合起来的本意是“unpublish things”。是6世纪东罗马帝国历史学家Procopius的著作，因为讲述了当时皇后Theodora成为皇后前的不光彩的经历，所以Procopius死后才出版。也被称为“Secret History”。

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

anecdote

anecdote: [17] In Greek, anékdotos meant ‘unpublished’. It was formed from the negative prefix an- and ékdotos, which in turn came from the verb didónai ‘give’ (a distant cousin of English donation and date) plus the prefix ek- ‘out’ – hence ‘give out, publish’. The use of the plural anékdota by the 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius as the title of his unpublished memoirs of the life of the Emperor Justinian, which revealed juicy details of court life, played a major part in the subsequent use of Latin anecdota for ‘revelations of secrets’, the sense which anecdote had when it first came into English.

The meaning ‘brief amusing story’ did not develop until the mid 18th century.
=> date, donation

anecdote (n.)

1670s, "secret or private stories," from French anecdote (17c.) or directly from Greek anekdota "things unpublished," neuter plural of anekdotos, from an- "not" (see an-) + ekdotos "published," from ek- "out" + didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)).

Procopius' 6c. Anecdota, unpublished memoirs of Emperor Justinian full of court gossip, gave the word a sense of "revelation of secrets," which decayed in English to "brief, amusing stories" (1761).

This research is based on anecdote not fact.

这项研究的根据是传闻而非事实。

牛津词典

amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor

关于他短暂演员生涯的趣闻逸事

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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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

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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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

A problem with alternative medicine is, of course, that of anecdote and hearsay.

有选择性药物的一个问题当然是轶事和道听途说的.

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The question sparks an anecdote about the Korean war.

这个问题让他突然回忆起一则在美朝战争发生的轶事.

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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.

辞典例句

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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He was about to favour us with a little anecdote connected with it, when you entered.

你们走进来的时间,他正打算讲段和这有关的逸话给我们听听呢.

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This can range from a short defiant statement, to an anecdote that involves your subject.

内容可以是一个简短的具有挑战性的言论, 可以是与你发言主题有关的趣闻.

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This anecdote I had from Uncle Benjamin.

这件事是从我的伯父拜雅明那儿听来的.

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He departed from the text to tell an anecdote.

他偏离课文讲起了一则轶事.

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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.

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It had never been more than a family anecdote.

那不过是个家庭趣谈罢了.

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The host Bored his guests with a long and pointless anecdote.

主人讲述的冗长而毫无意义的轶闻使客人们都厌倦了.

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This anecdote proves that it's as much what you sing rather than how you sing it.

这件轶事证明只要了解音乐,而不是你如何唱.

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Starting with an anecdote or joke warm up the audience.

演讲开始时先讲个趣闻轶事或笑话,拉近与听众的距离.

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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.

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Heywood is regaling the table with some anecdote about Andy.

海沃德在饭桌旁起劲地讲着安迪的轶事.

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He introduced his speech with a humorous anecdote.

他讲了一则幽默轶事作为讲演的引子.

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He told me some anecdote about our English teacher.

他告诉我几个关于英语老师的掌故.

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Anecdote suggests, however fork out find their colonies are far more resistant to CCD.

然而有很多事例说明, 肯花点钱的养蜂人会发现他们的蜂群对蜂群崩溃失调症有更强的抵抗力.

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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.

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Her best anecdote is about picking a real estate agent.

她那最有趣的奇闻就是关于挑选房产经纪人的故事.

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Then he will judge the same anecdote in psychoanalytical terms , giving it a different dimension.

然后他又用精神分析的术语从完全不同的角度对这一故事进行评价.

辞典例句

This is a more significant anecdote than any tale of spittle.

这则佚事比任何唾沫飞溅的传言都更有意义.

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One small anecdote conveys the aura of hopes unfulfilled.

一个小小的轶事预示着那些不能实现的希望.

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But I have deep feelings about the anecdote.

我可是对这则轶事感受颇深.

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