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单词 anecdote
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anecdote

noun
/ˈænɪkdəʊt/
/ˈænɪkdəʊt/
[countable, uncountable]
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  1. a short, interesting or funny story about a real person or event
    • amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor
    • The book is a rich store of anecdote.
    Extra Examples
    • The biographer provides a telling anecdote about the President's actions at this time.
    • We swapped anecdotes about old friends.
    Topics Literature and writingb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • amusing
    • entertaining
    • humorous
    verb + anecdote
    • recount
    • relate
    • tell
    preposition
    • anecdote about
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  2. a personal account of an event
    • This research is based on anecdote, not fact.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • amusing
    • entertaining
    • humorous
    verb + anecdote
    • recount
    • relate
    • tell
    preposition
    • anecdote about
    See full entry
  3. Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, or via modern Latin from Greek anekdota ‘things unpublished’, from an- ‘not’ + ekdotos, from ekdidōnai ‘publish’.
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