biography的意思|biography的解释-里氏词典

biography [bai'ɒgrәfi]

n. 传记

He likes to read biographies of great men to promote himself.
他喜欢读伟人传记来提高自己。
The novel should be read in conjunction with the author's biography.
这本小说应该和作者传记一起读。
This is a novel, but on the other hand, it can be looked as a biography.
这是一部小说, 在另一方面, 它又可以被看作一部传记。

biography

[ noun ]
an account of the series of events making up a person's life
<noun.communication>

Biography \Bi*og"ra*phy\, n.; pl. {Biographies}. [Gr. ?; bi`os
life + ? to write: cf. F. biographie. See {Graphic}.]
1. The written history of a person's life.

2. Biographical writings in general.

For a biography of this difficult artist that captures the man's spirit, the ingenious sparkle that subdued his enemies and found its way into all those marvelous novels, readers unfamiliar with Waugh may prefer Mr. Sykes's less exacting volume.
The blurb suggests that the book 'is the extraordinary biography of one of the great sporting individuals of the 20th century.'
Thus, he starts with a ten-page biography of Bull which might have come out of the FT; he paints a professional picture of Operation Storm.
Smith, dark-haired and deceptively slim at 23 years old, has a typical wrestler's biography in that he had an older brother (among eight other sibs) who taught him the ropes.
"What Shaw wanted from biography was an endorsement for his political opinions.
Mr. Schoenbaum's biography is a major step, but by no means the last one, in putting Dean Rusk into his proper historical perspective.
They are some of the reasons why a biography is long overdue. Maestro, The Life of Henry Cotton, is written by Peter Dobereiner, formerly the golf correspondent of The Observer.
The latest edition of Donald Trump's best-selling biography, "Trump: The Art of the Deal," is two sentences shorter after developer Samuel J. LeFrak complained a reference to him was inaccurate.
But when Ian Hamilton attempted to write a biography of J.D. Salinger, he found that the reclusive writer was very much alive and willing to fight back.
But here is Adam Lively, inventing the biography of one Paul Clearwater (born 2030, died 2099) as the springboard for an ambitious novel of ideas about the power of music and creativity.
Silverman, a former newspaper columnist who wrote the recent "The Fox that Got Away" and an upcoming biography on director David Lean, conceived of the musical in 1981.
Both books are competing with "Maxwell," an authorized biography by Joe Haines, political editor of a Maxwell-controlled newspaper chain, that was published this week by another Maxwell Communication Corp. unit.
Though not an authorized biography, it does share its subject's well-known distaste for gossip.
"The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire," a best-seller, is a fictionalized biography of the 19th century author known for the sensory imagery of his "Flowers of Evil," a poetry collection condemned in its time for obscenity.
MR TINY ROWLAND, joint chief executive of Lonrho, and his wife Josie last night issued statements criticising an unauthorised biography, A Rebel Tycoon.
The biography admirably draws together the many adventurous threads that went into such a comparatively small body of work. We follow Hughes going steerage to New York and suffering the indignities of an immigrant's incarceration on Ellis Island.
In biography, as in life, an unremitting diet of sex and shopping makes for a pretty shallow experience.
But hundreds of people greeted him with tumultuous applause when he appeared at Belgrade's National Museum to promote a British biography about his father, Prince Pavle.
Evans may ultimately regret both positions, said Eugene Kennedy, a Loyola University professor, author of a biography of the elder Daley and a veteran political observer.
But for anything like an adequate appreciation of Henry James's life one must go to Leon Edel's monumental (if at times too reductively Freudian) biography.
Before she died, he produced four to five books a year; shortly afterwards, he abandoned fiction writing completely. In its attempt to pinpoint the key moments and motives of fictional creation, this is a model of literary biography.
Indeed, Mr. Watson begins by telling us that he undertook this exercise in "biography" in order to reveal something of the sheer richness of art history.
Gov. Dukakis screens each member of his huge finance committee personally, insisting on seeing a biography of every prospective member.
The first excerpts of an unauthorized biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis will be published Monday.
But by law, military officers in Panama are supposed to resign after 25 years of active service, and Noriega's official biography shows that he entered the service in 1962, or 26 years ago.
Political biography, histories and novels head the list.
Sinclair-Stevenson Pounds 20, 724 pages This is the third biography of Evelyn Waugh.
To write this biography, Ms. Sheehy interviewed an exhausting number of Mr. Gorbachev's friends and associates, ranging from his Politburo colleagues to childhood sweethearts.
The movie, based on the best-selling biography "Ari," by Peter Evans, isn't the first TV treatment of the Greek shipping magnate's life.
Author and literary critic Benjamin L. Reid, who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for biography, has died at the age of 72.

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