a short, interesting or funny story about a real person or event 逸事；趣聞 amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor 關於他短暫演員生涯的趣聞逸事 The book is a rich store of anecdote. 這本書充滿了轶事。
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingb2The biographer provides a telling anecdote about the President's actions at this time. 此時傳記作者講了一件有關總統活動的生動趣事，給人印象十分深刻。 We swapped anecdotes about old friends. 我們互相講述老朋友的趣聞佚事。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- amusing
- entertaining
- humorous
- …
- recount
- relate
- tell
- …
- anecdote about
a personal account of an event 傳聞 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Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, or via modern Latin from Greek anekdota ‘things unpublished’, from an- ‘not’ + ekdotos, from ekdidōnai ‘publish’.