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(虛構(gòu)的)故事，小說(shuō)
A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain.
例句
The second story in the book is titled 'The Scholar'...
書(shū)中的第二個(gè)故事題為《學(xué)者》。
I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits.
我要給你講一個(gè) 4 只小兔子的故事。
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(尤指口頭的)敘述，描述
A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it.
例句
The parents all shared interesting stories about their children...
父母之間都會(huì)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(gè)具有某種學(xué)習(xí)障礙的孩子的典型故事。
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傳記;史話(huà);紀(jì)事
The story of something is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began.
例句
...the story of the women's movement in Ireland.
愛(ài)爾蘭婦女運(yùn)動(dòng)的記載
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謊言;假話(huà);虛構(gòu)之事
If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something.
例句
He invented some story about a cousin.
他騙別人說(shuō)自己有位堂兄。
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新聞報(bào)道
A news story is a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast.
例句
Those are some of the top stories in the news...
那些是報(bào)紙上的頭條新聞。
They'll do anything for a story.
他們?yōu)閾尩叫侣剷?huì)不擇手段。
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但那是另一回事了;那就不相干了
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.
例句
I'd met him at a dance I'd gone to on my own. But that's another story.
我有一次獨(dú)自去參加舞會(huì)時(shí)遇上了他。但那是題外話(huà)了。
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長(zhǎng)話(huà)短說(shuō);簡(jiǎn)而言之
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 .
例句
To cut a long story short, I ended up as managing director.
長(zhǎng)話(huà)短說(shuō)，我最終當(dāng)上了總經(jīng)理。
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另一回事，不同情況(通常指不好的一面)
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.
例句
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(diǎn)情況就不同了。
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又來(lái)了，又是老一套(表示不好的事情似乎總是重復(fù)發(fā)生)
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.
例句
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(gè)人做 3 個(gè)人的工作。
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不是事情的全部;只是部分情況
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.
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This may be true but it is only part of the story...
這可能是真的，但它并不是事情的全部。
Jane goes to great lengths to explain that this is not the whole story.
簡(jiǎn)竭力地解釋說(shuō)那不是事情的全貌。
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對(duì)事情的說(shuō)法;辯解
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.
例句
He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story.
他沒(méi)等聽(tīng)到她的解釋就已經(jīng)作出了決定。