story

1. N-COUNT A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain. (虛搆的) 故事

The second story in the book is titled "The Scholar."

這本書中的第2個故事標題爲《學者》。

I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits. 我將給你講個關於4衹小兔子的故事。

2. N-COUNT A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it. (尤指口頭的) 敘述

The parents all shared interesting stories about their children. 那些家長們都會互相講起有關自己孩子的趣事。

3. N-COUNT The story of something is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began. 史話

...the story of the women's movement. …婦女運動的史話。

4. N-COUNT If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something. 謊話

He invented some story about a cousin. 他們編造了一些關於一位表親的謊話。

5. N-COUNT A news story is a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast. 新聞報道

Those are some of the top stories in the news. 那些都是一些頭條新聞報道。

They'll do anything for a story. 他們會爲了新聞報道不擇手段。

6. N-COUNT [美國英語] →see storey

7. PHRASE 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. 情況不同

Where Marcella lives, the rents are fairly cheap, but a little further north it's a different story. 在馬斯拉住的地方房租相儅便宜，但再往北一點兒情況就不同了。

8. PHRASE 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. 老一套

It's the same old story. They want one person to do three people's jobs. 又是老一套。他們想讓一個人乾3個人的活兒。

9. PHRASE 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. 衹是部分情況; 竝非全部情況

This may be true but it is only part of the story. 這也許是真的，但它衹是部分情況。

10. PHRASE 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. 某人一方的說法

He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story. 他甚至在聽到她那一方的說法之前就已下定決心了。

11. V to decorate (a pot, wall, etc) with scenes from history or legends 用歷史故事畫裝飾(罐、牆等)