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单词 autobiography
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Definition of autobiography in English:

autobiography

nounPlural autobiographies ɔːtəbʌɪˈɒɡrəfiˌɔdəbaɪˈɑɡrəfi
  • 1An account of a person's life written by that person.

    he gives a vivid description of his childhood in his autobiography
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But, there are far more poorly written biographies and autobiographies by generals than there are good ones.
    • The author also suffers from the fact that two of his subjects have written terrific autobiographies.
    • He wrote two autobiographies and many novels loosely based on his family's history and yet he remained, it seems, a private man.
    • People in their twenties should have better things to be doing than writing autobiographies.
    • And members of the winning team will each receive a signed copy of his new autobiography.
    • Women are also less likely to have had the self-confidence to write diaries and autobiographies.
    • In a surprisingly candid autobiography, he reveals how his upbringing shaped his writing.
    • Unlike other scholars, he has chosen to give equal weight to works of fiction as well as diaries, memoirs and autobiographies.
    • Let's just say that by 30, I want to have had an international best-selling autobiography.
    • Many collections of working class autobiographies have been published and include several written by women.
    • On a related note has any one read his autobiography?
    • Both artists are skilled storytellers, able to use a few deftly chosen images to render snapshots of their own autobiographies.
    • One of my guilty pleasures is reading military autobiographies.
    • The first thing she tells the reader is that she is not unique, which is a relief - most people write autobiographies to persuade us that they are.
    • Celebrity autobiographies are very tricky things indeed.
    • Superstar autobiographies usually have a few wild statements.
    • Are there any new biographies or autobiographies due out this summer that you would recommend?
    • She includes extracts from letters and diaries as well as autobiographies.
    • By stressing their autobiographies more than their music, they may lose fans who simply want a good record, not a memoir.
    • There is an unusual emphasis on ghosts in herautobiography.
    • I was 14 when my English teacher set us the task of writing our autobiographies and, wishing to be as precise as possible, I asked my mother for my birth certificate.
    Synonyms
    memoirs, life story, account of one's life, personal history
    diary, journal
    1. 1.1mass noun Autobiographies considered as a literary genre.
      the book is a curious mixture of autobiography and fantasy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It went right across the board - from literary fiction to celebrity autobiography.
      • He then adds in elements of autobiography, fragments of myth and history and a dose of magic realism.
      • I'm of another party, the one that says all autobiography is fiction.
      • Her art combines romantic autobiography and detached conceptualism.
      • This is autobiography, and since when have we been worried about autobiography being indulgent?
      • Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction.
      • The details, he says, are pretty much straight autobiography, the sentiments also.
      • It is part autobiography, part history, part psychological investigation of the Scottish character.
      • If all fiction is autobiography, then we must suggest that perhaps all autobiography is fiction.
      • I'm always reluctant to do so because I don't want this blog to turn into autobiography by other means.
      • The blues sounded like autobiography, like ordinary people telling the story of their lives.
      • The relation between autobiography and your writing is a complicated one.
      • Although he claims that his films should not be read as autobiography, he is a past master at transforming his life into art.
      • It is a unique record that pushes at the boundaries of autobiography and fiction.
      • In four volumes of autobiography and three books of journals he distilled much of the flavour of each decade of a remarkable century.

Derivatives

  • autobiographer

  • noun ˌɔːtəbʌɪˈɒɡrəfəˌɔdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfər
    • Ethical biographers and autobiographers work with veracity as their aim (this is the motivation for all that research, after all) and this striving for veracity is respected, and expected, by readers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was diffident about his achievements, in contrast to the self-aggrandisement common to autobiographers.
      • The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
      • Famous in his lifetime as a journalist, literary editor, autobiographer and short story writer, he is now out of print and increasingly forgotten.
      • Like many autobiographers, her honesty leans towards self-indulgence in her refusal to attempt to give the reader anything more than a blandly introspective narrative.
      • Certainly this critique of autobiography has validity; how many autobiographers are truly honest even with themselves, let alone with their readers, about themselves in narrative?
      • But autobiographies can also show a narrow view, as the autobiographer is choosing which elements of their life they wish to share with the world, and which they will conceal.

Rhymes

bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography
 
 

Definition of autobiography in US English:

autobiography

nounˌɔdəbaɪˈɑɡrəfiˌôdəbīˈäɡrəfē
  • 1An account of a person's life written by that person.

    he gives a vivid description of his childhood in his autobiography
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But, there are far more poorly written biographies and autobiographies by generals than there are good ones.
    • Many collections of working class autobiographies have been published and include several written by women.
    • She includes extracts from letters and diaries as well as autobiographies.
    • One of my guilty pleasures is reading military autobiographies.
    • Let's just say that by 30, I want to have had an international best-selling autobiography.
    • People in their twenties should have better things to be doing than writing autobiographies.
    • He wrote two autobiographies and many novels loosely based on his family's history and yet he remained, it seems, a private man.
    • And members of the winning team will each receive a signed copy of his new autobiography.
    • The author also suffers from the fact that two of his subjects have written terrific autobiographies.
    • The first thing she tells the reader is that she is not unique, which is a relief - most people write autobiographies to persuade us that they are.
    • On a related note has any one read his autobiography?
    • There is an unusual emphasis on ghosts in herautobiography.
    • In a surprisingly candid autobiography, he reveals how his upbringing shaped his writing.
    • Both artists are skilled storytellers, able to use a few deftly chosen images to render snapshots of their own autobiographies.
    • Superstar autobiographies usually have a few wild statements.
    • Unlike other scholars, he has chosen to give equal weight to works of fiction as well as diaries, memoirs and autobiographies.
    • Women are also less likely to have had the self-confidence to write diaries and autobiographies.
    • I was 14 when my English teacher set us the task of writing our autobiographies and, wishing to be as precise as possible, I asked my mother for my birth certificate.
    • Are there any new biographies or autobiographies due out this summer that you would recommend?
    • Celebrity autobiographies are very tricky things indeed.
    • By stressing their autobiographies more than their music, they may lose fans who simply want a good record, not a memoir.
    Synonyms
    memoirs, life story, account of one's life, personal history
    1. 1.1 The autobiography as a literary genre.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is part autobiography, part history, part psychological investigation of the Scottish character.
      • Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction.
      • The details, he says, are pretty much straight autobiography, the sentiments also.
      • I'm of another party, the one that says all autobiography is fiction.
      • He then adds in elements of autobiography, fragments of myth and history and a dose of magic realism.
      • Her art combines romantic autobiography and detached conceptualism.
      • It went right across the board - from literary fiction to celebrity autobiography.
      • I'm always reluctant to do so because I don't want this blog to turn into autobiography by other means.
      • It is a unique record that pushes at the boundaries of autobiography and fiction.
      • Although he claims that his films should not be read as autobiography, he is a past master at transforming his life into art.
      • This is autobiography, and since when have we been worried about autobiography being indulgent?
      • If all fiction is autobiography, then we must suggest that perhaps all autobiography is fiction.
      • In four volumes of autobiography and three books of journals he distilled much of the flavour of each decade of a remarkable century.
      • The relation between autobiography and your writing is a complicated one.
      • The blues sounded like autobiography, like ordinary people telling the story of their lives.
 
 
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