| 单词 | biography |
| 释义 | Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing, History, Literaturebi·og·ra·phy /baɪˈɒɡrəfi $ -ˈɑːɡ-/ ●●○ noun (plural biographies) 1 [countable]TCNSH a book that tells what has happened in someone’s life, written by someone else 传记，传记作品biography of Boswell’s biography of Samuel Johnson 鲍斯韦尔为约翰逊博士写的传记► see thesaurus at book2. [uncountable]AL literature that consists of biographies 传记文学 → autobiography —biographical /ˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkəl◂/ adjective biographical information 生平介绍Examples from the Corpusbiography• She is the author of several books, including a biography of the artist Salvador Dali.• She's the author of three acclaimed biographies.• 'Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now' is an authorized biography of the former Beatle by Barry Miles.• Moral careers, as we have seen, are lives organised around exemplary biographies.• But Wyler is barely more visible in his biography than in his films.• She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.• No biographies have been written about him, and none ever will be.• Plowing through this masterpiece of biography, he was haunted by a question.• Isaac Deutscher's outstanding biographies of Stalin and Trotsky• This is a competent and well-researched biography.• Boswell's biography of Dr Johnson• Odo's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues.• At first, these biographies were simply invented.• He has slammed an unauthorised biography which he claims contains 'factual errors'.• The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.Origin biography (1600-1700) Late Greek biographia, from Greek bio- ( → BIO-) + -graphia “-graphy”bi·og·ra·phy nounChineseSyllable what Corpus a has that book tells |
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