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Story Phrase N Count Description News Long People 例:The

单词 story
音标
英[ˈstɔ:ri] 美[ˈstɔri, ˈstori]
解释
n.故事,传说;历史,沿革;内情;传记;vt.用历史故事画装饰;讲…的故事;把…作为故事讲述;vi.说谎;
例句

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(虚构的)故事,小说
A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain.
例:The second story in the book is titled 'The Scholar'...书中的第二个故事题为《学者》。
例:I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits.我要给你讲一个 4 只小兔子的故事。

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(尤指口头的)叙述,描述
A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it.
例:The parents all shared interesting stories about their children...父母之间都会分享自己孩子的一些趣事。
例:Isak's story is typical of a child who has a specific learning disability.伊萨克的故事就是一个具有某种学习障碍的孩子的典型故事。

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传记;史话;纪事
The story of something is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began.
例:...the story of the women's movement in Ireland.爱尔兰妇女运动的记载

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谎言;假话;虚构之事
If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something.
例:He invented some story about a cousin.他骗别人说自己有位堂兄。

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新闻报道
A news story is a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast.
例:Those are some of the top stories in the news...那些是报纸上的头条新闻。
例:They'll do anything for a story.他们为抢到新闻会不择手段。

PHRASE
但那是另一回事了;那就不相干了
You say 'but that's another story' when you have mentioned a subject that you are not going to talk about or explain in detail.
例:I'd met him at a dance I'd gone to on my own. But that's another story.我有一次独自去参加舞会时遇上了他。但那是题外话了。

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长话短说;简而言之
In British English, you use to cut a long story short to indicate that you are going to state the final result of an event and not give any more details. In American English, you say to make a long story short .
例:To cut a long story short, I ended up as managing director.长话短说,我最终当上了总经理。

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另一回事,不同情况(通常指不好的一面)
You use a different story to refer to a situation, usually a bad one, which exists in one set of circumstances when you have mentioned that it does not exist in another set of circumstances.
例:Where Marcella lives, the rents are fairly cheap, but a little further north it's a different story.玛塞拉居住的地方,租金比较便宜,但稍稍再往北一点情况就不同了。

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又来了,又是老一套(表示不好的事情似乎总是重复发生)
If you say it's the same old story or it's the old story, you mean that something unpleasant or undesirable seems to happen again and again.
例:It's the same old story. They want one person to do three people's jobs.又是老一套。他们想让 1 个人做 3 个人的工作。

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不是事情的全部;只是部分情况
If you say that something is only part of the story or is not the whole story, you mean that the explanation or information given is not enough for a situation to be fully understood.
例:This may be true but it is only part of the story...这可能是真的,但它并不是事情的全部。
例:Jane goes to great lengths to explain that this is not the whole story.简竭力地解释说那不是事情的全貌。

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对事情的说法;辩解
If someone tells you their side of the story, they tell you why they behaved in a particular way and why they think they were right, when other people think that person behaved wrongly.
例:He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story.他没等听到她的解释就已经作出了决定。
变形
third:stories~done:storied~pl:stories~ing:storying~past:storied~

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