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autobiography

/aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-/US // ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ- //UK // (ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ, ˌɔːtəbaɪ-) //

自传,自述,自述书,自序

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies.

    • : a history of a person's life written or told by that person.

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Examples

  • In so doing, she gave us an autobiography that has held up for more than a century.

  • His handwritten autobiography reawakens in Lee a longing to know her motherland.

  • His elocution, perfected on stage and evident in television and film, make X’s autobiography an easy yet informative listen.

  • The book is not so much an autobiography of Hastings — or even Netflix’s origin story.

  • By contrast, Shing-Tung Yau says in his autobiography that the Calabi-Yau manifold was given its name by other people eight years after he proved its existence, which Eugenio Calabi had conjectured some 20 years before that.

  • Glow: The Autobiography of Rick JamesRick James David Ritz (Atria Books) Where to begin?

  • Hulanicki was the subject of a 2009 documentary, Beyond Biba, based on her 2007 autobiography From A to Biba.

  • And it was also during the phase of the higher autobiography.

  • “Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.

  • Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.

  • No; her parents had but small place in that dramatic autobiography that Daphne was now constructing for herself.

  • His collected works, with autobiography, were published in 1865 under the editorship of Charles Hawkins.

  • But there is one point about the book that deserves some considering, its credibility as autobiography.

  • I thought you were anxious for leisure to complete your autobiography.

  • The smallest fragment of a genuine autobiography seems to me valuable for the student of past epochs.