story
n. 故事,传说; 历史,沿革; 内情; 传记
A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain.
The second story in the book is titled 'The Scholar'...
书中的第二个故事题为《学者》。
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。
A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it.
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。
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。
The story of something is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began.
...the story of the women's movement in Ireland.
爱尔兰妇女运动的记载
If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something.
He invented some story about a cousin.
他骗别人说自己有位堂兄。
A news story is a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast.
Those are some of the top stories in the news...
那些是报纸上的头条新闻。
They'll do anything for a story.
他们为抢到新闻会不择手段。
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.
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。
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 .
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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。
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.
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。
1. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;
2. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;
3. structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;
4. a record or narrative description of past events;
5. a short account of the news;
6. a trivial lie;
novel, romance, fiction, story, fable, tale
这些名词均含"小说,故事"之意。
but that's another story
(非正式)但是那是另一回事
end of story
(非正式)就是这个样子,仅此而已
it's a long story
(非正式)说来话长,一言难尽
it's (或 that's) the story of one's life
(非正式)那就是…经历的缩影
the same old story
老一套,老样子
the story goes
据说;据谣传
to cut (或 北美
长话短说,简而言之
Good women have always saved sinful men in story.
故事中,向来都是善良的女人挽救了作恶的男人.
It was a long story with many ands.
这故事说来话长,有许多细节.
There is no story without coincidences.
无巧不成书.
She repeated her story to us.
她把她的故事向我们重复了一遍.
This is a raw story.
这是一个未润色的故事.