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biography

noun
 
🔊/baɪˈɒɡrəfi/
🔊/baɪˈɑːɡrəfi/
[countable, uncountable]
(plural biographies)
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  1. 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。
    compare autobiography
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    Topics Literature and writingc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • authorized
    • official
    • unauthorized
    • …
    verb + biography
    • work on
    • write
    • produce
    • …
    preposition
    • biography by
    • biography of
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    Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.