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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- authorized
- official
- unauthorized
- …
- work on
- write
- produce
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- biography by
- biography of
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.