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biography

/bahy-og-ruh-fee, bee-/US // baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi- //UK // (baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ) //

传记,简历,生平简介,自传

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bi·og·ra·phies.

    • : a written account of another person's life: the biography of Byron by Marchand.
    • : an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.
    • : such writings collectively.
    • : the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor.

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Examples

  • Barrett didn’t say anything on Tuesday to contradict our understanding of her ideological leanings based on her past rulings, past statements and biography.

  • Republicans, meanwhile, focused mostly on her biography — including her role as a working mother of seven and her Catholic faith — and her credentials, while offering few specifics about her record as a law professor and judge.

  • She delivered an inspiring biography at one point, reflecting on the sacrifice her mother made to emigrate to the United States.

  • As Walter Isaacson pointed out in his biography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin proposed the postal system as a vital network to bond together the 13 disparate colonies.

  • Serving that end, the book is not an in-depth biography as much as a summary of Galileo’s life and science, plus a thorough recounting of the events leading up to his famous trial.

  • The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.

  • For those unfamiliar with Michals, an annotated biography and useful essays are included.

  • Did you envision your Pryor biography as extending your previous investigation—aesthetically and historically?

  • But Stephen Kotkin's new biography reveals a learned despot who acted cunningly to take advantage of the times.

  • Watching novelists insult one another is one of the primary pleasures of his biography.

  • He also published two volumes of American Biography, a work which his death abridged.

  • Mme. de Chaulieu gave her husband the three children designated in the duc's biography.

  • The biography of great men always has been, and always will be read with interest and profit.

  • I like biography far better than fiction myself: fiction is too free.

  • The Bookman: "A more entertaining narrative whether in biography or fiction has not appeared in recent years."