stories
n. 故事( story的名詞複數 ); (任何結構、構造的)層; <口>謊話; <美>樓層
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'...
書中的第二個故事題為《學者》。
I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits.
我要給你講一個 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...
父母之間都會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.
伊薩克的故事就是一個具有某種學習障礙的孩子的典型故事。
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.
愛爾蘭婦女運動的記載
If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something.
He invented some story about a cousin.
他騙別人說自己有位堂兄。
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...
那些是報紙上的頭條新聞。
They'll do anything for a story.
他們為搶到新聞會不擇手段。
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.
我有一次獨自去參加舞會時遇上了他。但那是題外話了。
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.
長話短說,我最終當上了總經理。
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.
瑪塞拉居住的地方,租金比較便宜,但稍稍再往北一點情況就不同了。
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。他們想讓 1 個人做 3 個人的工作。
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...
這可能是真的,但它並不是事情的全部。
Jane goes to great lengths to explain that this is not the whole story.
簡竭力地解釋說那不是事情的全貌。
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.
他沒等聽到她的解釋就已經作出了決定。
Somehow he tells these stories without a note of horror.
不知為什麼他講這些故事時一點都不害怕。
Like the best stories, this one may yet have a happy end.
就像最精彩的故事那樣,這個故事也許仍會有個美好的結局。
She has always had a high reputation for her excellent short stories.
她一直因其優秀的短篇小說享有很高的聲望。
The doll-like figures in these stories are unlike anybody, let alone oneself.
這些故事中的玩偶形象跟誰都不像,更不用說像自己了。
These stories are spreading like wildfire through the city.
這些謠言迅速傳遍了整座城市。