biography
noun /baɪˈɒɡrəfi/
/baɪˈɑːɡrəfi/
[countable, uncountable] (plural biographies)
- the story of a person’s life written by somebody else; this type of writing
传记；传记作品 - Boswell’s biography of Johnson
博斯韦尔写的约翰逊传 - a biography by Antonia Fraser
由安东尼娅・弗雷泽写的传记 - The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.
这本书简述了所有重要画家的生平。
WordfinderTopics Literature and writingc1- biography
- blockbuster
- book
- character
- editor
- narrator
- novel
- plot
- publish
- title
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- authorized
- official
- unauthorized
- …
- work on
- write
- produce
- …
- biography by
- biography of
词源late 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’. - Boswell’s biography of Johnson