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A short story you tell from your own life — something that happened to you, or that you saw. People tell anecdotes to make a point, to make others laugh, or just to share a moment. In careful talk, an anecdote is not the same as proof: one story can be true and still not show what usually happens. The word is ordinary and friendly; you will hear it in class, in speeches, and at dinner. Close cousins exist in French, German, and Spanish, almost the same shape.
軼事、趣聞
組成From French anecdote, from Ancient Greek anékdotos, “not published”: an- “not” + ékdotos “published / given out.” Under that sit ek- “out” and a verb meaning “I give.” So the first anecdotes were accounts that had not been written up and sent out yet.
同家族的字
- anecdotalthe adjective from anecdote
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
anecdotenoun/ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʊt/
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A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
- tell an anecdote
- relate a short anecdote
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An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
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A previously untold secret account of an incident.
anecdoteverb/ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʊt/
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To tell anecdotes (about).
- They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached […]
- Bob anecdoted the circus he and Jimmy had seen that afternoon.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。