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单词 what's the story?
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what's the story?
8. The series of past events connected with a particular person, country, institution, or thing, esp. when considered as a sequential narrative; the facts of the matter. Now frequently in what's the story? With use with a possessive adjective (as in quots. a1684, 1983) cf. sense 5b.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > events as subject of history
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a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1676 (1955) IV. 97 The famous beauty & errant Lady, the Dutchesse of Mazarine (all the world knows her storie).
1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 65 The Prudence, Courage and Firmness of Her Majesty..would, if the Particulars were truly related, make a very shining Part in Her Story.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 29 Several other kings at Babylon, with whose story we are entirely unacquainted.
1746 ‘F. de Biron’ tr. Adventures & Amours Marquis de Noailles I. 29 The Parties principally concerned thought it convenient to let the Public know the real story as I have here put it down.
1795 F. Reynolds Rage iii. ii. 49 Who is this child? Where does he come from? What's the story?
1878 B. Herford (title) The story of religion in England.
1885 L. Oliphant Sympneumata 135 The story of woman upon earth has been different from the beginning to that of man.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner i. 10 Many objects in the room had a story, had been in the daily use of hands long since vanished.
1910 J. McCabe Prehist. Man i. 14 If we take the entire story of the stratified rocks to extend to over 55 million years.
1920 J. Hay Melwood Myst. xix. 247 Smith and Wesson, forty-four; fired once; empty shell missing.—All right, Sco: what's the story?
1976 Boys' Life Oct. 14/2 We may not yet know the full story of why or how the birds make their trips.
1983 P. Marshall Reena & Other Stories 136 What's her story? How did she come by that white elephant of a house, for example?
2009 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Oct. The story behind the frock that earned Mrs Cameron such widespread praise..is rather more complicated.
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