核心畫面

Picture someone spending years reading another person's letters, talking to people who knew them, and then writing that whole life down from the outside — birth to death, in order, as it really happened. Biography can be thought of as that finished book: a real life told by someone who is not living it. The word then from one such book to the whole shelf of them, and to the kind of writing they all belong to.

可以想成有人花了好幾年,讀著另一個人留下的信、去找認識他的人談,然後從外面把那整段人生寫下來——從出生到過世,照著順更多收起可以想成有人花了好幾年,讀著另一個人留下的信、去找認識他的人談,然後從外面把那整段人生寫下來——從出生到過世,照著順序,寫的是真的發生過的事。biography 可以想成就是寫成的那本書:一個人的真實人生,由不是他本人的人來說。這個字接著會從「那一本」擴大成「那一整排」,再擴大成這類寫作本身。

One branch

別人寫下的一段真實人生

兩個意思是同一樣東西的兩種距離:走近看是手上這一本,退遠看是這一整類寫作。

life story book · noun · B1

A book that tells the true story of a real person's life, written by someone else.

傳記

原始詞典資料3 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。

biographynoun/baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

  • 1

    A person's life story, especially one published.

    • There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
  • 2

    The art of writing this kind of story.

    • She is best known for biography and history, but she is also a novelist.

biographyverb/baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

  • 1

    To write a biography of.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。