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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- story [ 'storɪ] [ 'stɔːrɪ]
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1.
noun
故事；传说
- She is telling a bedtime story to her little son.
- 她正给小儿子讲睡前听的故事。
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2.
noun
轶事
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3.
noun
小说（尤指短篇小说）
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4.
noun
小说文学
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5.
noun
（小说、戏剧等的）情节
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6.
noun
记事，报道，传闻
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7.
noun
[verbal]
谎言，假话
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8.
noun
传奇；史话；历史
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9.
noun
[American English]
新闻；新闻报道
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10.
noun
（人物的）经历，来历
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11.
vt.
[archaic]
讲…的故事（或传说），编成故事叙述
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12.
vt.
用历史（或传说）中的事迹作为图案装饰
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1.
noun
故事；传说
- story [ 'storɪ] [ 'stɔːrɪ]
Collins English-English Dictionary
- story ['stɔːrɪ]
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n
short story a piece of fiction, briefer and usually less detailed than a novel
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2.
n
story line the plot of a book, film, etc
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3.
n
a narration of a chain of events told or written in prose or verse
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4.
n
an event that could be the subject of a narrative
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5.
n
a report or statement on a matter or event
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6.
n
the event or material for such a report
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7.
n
[informal]
a lie, fib, or untruth
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8.
vt.
[tr]
to decorate (a pot, wall, etc) with scenes from history or legends
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vt.
[Etymology]
C13: from Anglo-French estorie, from Latin historia; see
history
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1.
n
short story a piece of fiction, briefer and usually less detailed than a novel
- story ['stɔːrɪ]
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1.
n
another spelling (esp US) of storey
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1.
n
another spelling (esp US) of storey
Examples
- a story of unknown authorship
- 一本不知出自何人笔下的小说 → authorship
- His story bears on the crime.
- 他所写的报道与罪行有关。 → bear
- The story broke.
- 故事传开了。 → break
- His story lacked coherence.
- 他的故事缺乏连贯性。 → coherence
- A good story has an element of suspense.
- 一个好的故事都有悬念成分。 → element
- a feasible story
- 似真的故事 → feasible
- to get a story at second hand
- 通过第二手了解情况 → hand
- to inject a note of humor into a story
- 使一个故事具有幽默感 → inject
- the inside story
- 内幕，内情 → inside
- to kill a newspaper story
- 扣压一篇新闻报道 → kill
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