a short, interesting or funny story about a real person or event 逸事；趣闻 amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor 关于他短暂演员生涯的趣闻逸事 The book is a rich store of anecdote. 这本书充满了轶事。
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingb2The biographer provides a telling anecdote about the President's actions at this time. 此时传记作者讲了一件有关总统活动的生动趣事，给人印象十分深刻。 We swapped anecdotes about old friends. 我们互相讲述老朋友的趣闻佚事。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- amusing
- entertaining
- humorous
- …
- recount
- relate
- tell
- …
- anecdote about
a personal account of an event 传闻 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- amusing
- entertaining
- humorous
- …
- recount
- relate
- tell
- …
- anecdote about
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, or via modern Latin from Greek anekdota ‘things unpublished’, from an- ‘not’ + ekdotos, from ekdidōnai ‘publish’.