stories

英 [ˈstɔːriz]

美 [ˈstɔriz]

n.  (虚构的)故事; 小说; (真实情况的)叙述，描述; 对往事的叙述
story的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (虚构的)故事，小说
  Astoryis a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain.
  1. The second story in the book is titled 'The Scholar'...
     书中的第二个故事题为《学者》。
  2. I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits.
     我要给你讲一个 4 只小兔子的故事。
  3. ...a popular love story with a happy ending.
     广受欢迎、结局圆满的爱情故事
• N-COUNT (尤指口头的)叙述，描述
  Astoryis a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it.
  1. The parents all shared interesting stories about their children...
     父母之间都会分享自己孩子的一些趣事。
  2. Isak's story is typical of a child who has a specific learning disability.
     伊萨克的故事就是一个具有某种学习障碍的孩子的典型故事。
• N-COUNT 传记;史话;纪事
  Thestory ofsomething is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began.
  1. ...the story of the women's movement in Ireland.
     爱尔兰妇女运动的记载
• N-COUNT 谎言;假话;虚构之事
  If someone invents astory, they give a false explanation or account of something.
  1. He invented some story about a cousin.
     他骗别人说自己有位堂兄。
• N-COUNT 新闻报道
  A newsstoryis a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast.
  1. Those are some of the top stories in the news...
     那些是报纸上的头条新闻。
  2. They'll do anything for a story.
     他们为抢到新闻会不择手段。
  3. ...front-page news stories.
     头版新闻报道
• → see:storey;-storey
• See also:cock-and-bull storyshort storysob storysuccess storytall story
• PHRASE 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.
  1. I'd met him at a dance I'd gone to on my own. But that's another story.
     我有一次独自去参加舞会时遇上了他。但那是题外话了。
• PHRASE 长话短说;简而言之
  In British English, you useto cut a long story shortto indicate that you are going to state the final result of an event and not give any more details. In American English, you sayto make a long story short.
  1. To cut a long story short, I ended up as managing director.
     长话短说，我最终当上了总经理。
• PHRASE 另一回事，不同情况(通常指不好的一面)
  You usea different storyto 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.
  1. Where Marcella lives, the rents are fairly cheap, but a little further north it's a different story.
     玛塞拉居住的地方，租金比较便宜，但稍稍再往北一点情况就不同了。
• PHRASE 又来了，又是老一套(表示不好的事情似乎总是重复发生)
  If you sayit's the same old storyorit's the old story, you mean that something unpleasant or undesirable seems to happen again and again.
  1. It's the same old story. They want one person to do three people's jobs.
     又是老一套。他们想让 1 个人做 3 个人的工作。
• PHRASE 不是事情的全部;只是部分情况
  If you say that something isonly part of the storyor isnot the whole story, you mean that the explanation or information given is not enough for a situation to be fully understood.
  1. This may be true but it is only part of the story...
     这可能是真的，但它并不是事情的全部。
  2. Jane goes to great lengths to explain that this is not the whole story.
     简竭力地解释说那不是事情的全貌。
• PHRASE 对事情的说法;辩解
  If someone tells you theirside 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.
  1. He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story.
     他没等听到她的解释就已经作出了决定。

双语例句

• After reading a biography of Lincoln he was able to tell many stories about the President.
  他读了林肯的传记后，能讲出许多关于这位总统的故事。
• I have twenty novels and countless magazine stories to my credit.
  我著有20部小说，还在杂志上发表了无数篇文章。
• We listened with bated breath to Grandma's stories of her travels.
  我们屏住呼吸听祖母讲述她的游历故事。
• She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories
  她是一位多产的作家，写了很多小说和短篇故事。
• They have just returned from faraway places with wonderful stories to tell.
  他们刚从遥远的地方回来，有很多精彩的故事要讲。
• Greene's stories had an edge of realism that made it easy to forget they were fiction
  格林的小说带有现实主义色彩，很容易让人忘记它们是虚构的。
• I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about him
  我认为你编造他的谣言很不厚道。
• He published a collection of short stories.
  他出了本短篇小说集。
• She told stories that cracked me up and I swore to write them down so you could enjoy them too
  她讲了几个令我捧腹大笑的故事，我一定要写下来，好让你也乐乐。
• Like the best stories, this one may yet have a happy end
  就像最精彩的故事那样，这个故事也许仍会有个美好的结局。