sto·ry
noun OPAL S
/ˈstɔːri/
/ˈstɔːri/
(plural stories)
Idioms - a description of events and people that the writer or speaker has invented in order to entertain people
（虚构的）故事；小说 - a tragic love story
悲剧爱情故事 - adventure/detective stories
冒险／侦探小说 - a bedtime story
临睡前给小孩讲的故事 - Shall I tell you a story?
我给你讲个故事好吗？ - He read the children a story.
他给孩子们读了一则故事。 - She writes poems and stories for children.
她为孩子们写诗和故事。 - story about somebody/something a story about time travel
一部关于穿越时间旅行的小说 - story of somebody/something The book tells the story of a man who leads a double life.
这本书讲述了一个男人过着双重生活的故事。 - in the story What are the key events in the story?
故事的主要情节是什么？
Collocations LiteratureLiteratureBeing a writer- write/publish literature/poetry/fiction/a book/a story/a poem/a novel/a review/an autobiography
- become a writer/novelist/playwright
- find/have a publisher/an agent
- have a new book out
- edit/revise/proofread a book/text/manuscript
- dedicate a book/poem to…
- construct/create/weave/weave something into a complex narrative
- advance/drive the plot
- introduce/present the protagonist/a character
- describe/depict/portray a character (as…)/(somebody as) a hero/villain
- create an exciting/a tense atmosphere
- build/heighten the suspense/tension
- evoke/capture the pathos of the situation
- convey emotion/an idea/an impression/a sense of…
- engage the reader
- seize/capture/grip the (reader’s) imagination
- arouse/elicit emotion/sympathy (in the reader)
- lack imagination/emotion/structure/rhythm
- use/employ language/imagery/humour/(US English) humor/an image/a symbol/a metaphor/a device
- use/adopt/develop a style/technique
- be rich in/be full of symbolism
- evoke images of…/a sense of…/a feeling of…
- create/achieve an effect
- maintain/lighten the tone
- introduce/develop an idea/a theme
- inspire a novel/a poet/somebody’s work/somebody’s imagination
- read an author/somebody’s work/fiction/poetry/a text/a poem/a novel/a chapter/a passage
- review a book/a novel/somebody’s work
- give something/get/have/receive a good/bad review
- be hailed (as)/be recognized as a masterpiece
- quote a(n) phrase/line/stanza/passage/author
- provoke/spark discussion/criticism
- study/interpret/understand a text/passage
- translate somebody’s work/a text/a passage/a novel/a poem
Homophones storey | storystorey storysee also detective story, fairy story, ghost story, horror story (1), short story/ˈstɔːri//ˈstɔːri/- storey noun
- There are splendid views from the tenth storey.
从十楼可以看到壮丽的景色。
- There are splendid views from the tenth storey.
- story noun
- It's not real—it's just a story.
这不是真实的——这只是一个故事。
- It's not real—it's just a story.
Wordfinder- comic
- far-fetched
- gripping
- historical
- mannered
- moving
- rambling
- readable
- story
- tragic
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writinga1- I always read the children a bedtime story.
孩子临睡前我总要给他们读个故事。 - a collection of stories by modern writers
现代作家小说集 - The story is set in India in the 1930s.
故事发生在 20 世纪 30 年代的印度。 - The story opens with a man hiding from the police under a woman's skirt.
故事一开始，一个男子为了躲避警察而躲在一个女人的裙子下面。 - The motives of the hero become clearer as the story unfolds.
随着故事的展开，男主人公的动机变得越来越清晰。 - My dad sometimes read me a story at bedtime.
爸爸有时临睡前给我念故事。 - The book contains stories from all over the world.
这本书包含了来自世界各地的故事。 - Who was the story written by?
故事是谁写的？ - The play tells the story of a young woman called Rosa.
该剧讲述了一位名叫罗莎的年轻女子的故事。 - The simple moral of the story is that dreams will come true if you work hard.
这个故事的寓意很简单：只要努力，梦想就会实现。 - The story ended tragically.
故事以悲剧告终。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- true
- plausible
- false
- …
- collection
- hear
- read (somebody)
- write
- …
- circulate
- go around
- go round
- …
- teller
- telling
- line
- …
- according to a/the story
- story about
- story of
- …
- a fragment of a/the story
- a part of a/the story
- the rest of the story
- …
- a tragic love story
- (also storyline)the series of events in a book, film, play, etc.
（书、电影、戏剧等的）情节 - Her novels always have the same basic story.
她的小说基本情节都一样。 - The screenplay sticks to the original story.
该电影剧本完全忠实于原著。 - The character's central story arc involves a difficult choice between love and duty.
该角色的中心故事线涉及爱情和责任之间的艰难选择。
Extra Examples- The film lacks a coherent story.
这部影片缺乏连贯的故事情节。 - The film is the rags-to-riches story of a country girl who becomes a famous singer.
这部影片讲述的是一个从赤贫到鉅富的故事：一名乡村女孩成了著名歌星。 - The film tells the improbable story of a monkey that becomes a politician.
这部影片讲述了一个不可能发生的故事：一只猴子变成了一名政治家。
- Her novels always have the same basic story.
- an account of past events or of how something has developed
对往事的叙述 - The film is based on a true story.
这部电影以真实事件为蓝本。 - to recount/relate a story
讲述/讲述一个故事 - story of something/somebody He told us the story of his life.
他对我们讲述了他的生活经历。 - the story of the Beatles
披头士乐队的故事 - the story of the building of the bridge
这座桥的建筑始末 - story behind something/somebody Every piece of art has an interesting story behind it.
每件艺术品背后都有一段有意思的故事。
Extra Examples- the epic story of a family's escape from war
一家人从战争中逃亡的漫长而艰辛的历程 - the familiar story of a star who turns to drink and drugs
明星酗酒吸毒的常见故事 - The story of jazz is the story of modern America.
爵士乐的故事就是现代美国的故事。 - The real story is much more interesting than the film version.
真实的故事比电影版本有趣得多。 - There are different versions of her story.
她的故事有不同的版本。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- true
- plausible
- false
- …
- collection
- hear
- read (somebody)
- write
- …
- circulate
- go around
- go round
- …
- teller
- telling
- line
- …
- according to a/the story
- story about
- story of
- …
- a fragment of a/the story
- a part of a/the story
- the rest of the story
- …
- The film is based on a true story.
- an account, often spoken, of what happened to somebody or of how something happened
（真实情况的）叙述，描述 - The police didn't believe her story.
警方不相信她对事情的描述。 - I suspected he hadn't told us the whole story.
我怀疑他没有告诉我们全部情况。 - It was many years before the full story was made public.
许多年之后，事情的全貌才公之于众。 - The students were asked to share their stories.
学生们被要求分享他们的故事。 - story about something/somebody We must stick to our story about the accident.
对事故的说法我们必须一口咬定，再不改口。 - We all hear stories about young people leaving the countryside.
我们都听说过年轻人离开农村的故事。 - story of something/somebody It's a story of courage.
这件事正体现了勇气。 - I can't decide until I've heard both sides of the story.
双方的说法都听了以后我才能作决定。 - Many years later I returned to Africa but that's another story (= I am not going to talk about it now).
多年以后我又重返非洲，不过这是后话了。
Synonyms reportreportstory ▪ account ▪ versionThese are all words for a written or spoken account of events.report a written or spoken account of an event, especially one that is published or broadcast:see also cock and bull story, cover story (2), hard-luck story, horror story (2), life story, shaggy-dog story, sob story, success story, tall story- Are these newspaper reports true?
报纸上这些报道属实吗？
- It was many years before the full story was made public.
许多年之后，事情的全貌才公之于众。 - the front-page story
头版报道
- She gave the police a full account of the incident.
她向警方详尽地叙述了所发生的事情。
- She gave us her version of what had happened that day.
她从她的角度向我们描述了那天发生的事情。
- a report/story about something
- a brief/short report/story/account
- a full report/story/account/version
- a news report/story
- to give a(n) report/account/version
Extra Examples- ‘How come you've only got one shoe on?’ ‘It's a long story.’
“你怎么只穿了一只鞋？”“说起来话可就长了。” - A story was going around that the factory was in line for closure.
关于这家工厂要关门的说法在到处流传。 - According to Rachel's version of the story, they threw the key in the river.
按照雷切尔的说法，他们把钥匙扔到河里了。 - At first he denied everything, but then he changed his story and said it was an accident.
起初他否认一切，但后来又改变说法，说这是一场意外事故。 - She told the police a false story about being attacked.
她向警方谎称自己遭到袭击。 - Stories abound of vandalism and looting.
破坏和抢劫财物的故事多得很。 - There is one popular story in the town of a man-eating cat that lives in the forest.
镇里流传着一个故事：森林里住着一只食人猫。 - We had difficulty in piecing together the fragments of her story.
我们难以把她的故事片段串联起来。 - We swapped stories about our worst teachers.
我们交流了关于最差老师的故事。 - lurid stories of politicians' sexual adventures
关于政客桃色事件的耸人听闻的报道 - scare stories about the harmful effects of the vaccination
关于疫苗接种负面作用的耸人听闻的报道 - the story of his arrest
他被捕的消息 - He's been spreading malicious stories about you.
他在散布关于你的谣言。 - His life was a sorry story of betrayal and rejection.
他一生遭遇的都是背叛和抛弃。 - The moral of this story is that you should never take things for granted.
这个故事的寓意是永远不要想当然。 - The official story was that the singer had broken his arm falling in the shower.
官方说法是该歌手在洗澡时摔断了胳膊。 - The teacher punished me without listening to my side of the story.
老师没听我辩解就惩罚了我。 - This story illustrates the dangers of living on credit.
这个故事说明赊账度日的危险。 - What's the story on the trial?
庭审中有什么故事？ - All of them had an interesting story to tell.
他们所有人都有一个有趣的故事要讲。 - Answers can take any form from personal stories to poems.
答案可以采取任何形式，从个人故事到诗歌。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- true
- plausible
- false
- …
- collection
- hear
- read (somebody)
- write
- …
- circulate
- go around
- go round
- …
- teller
- telling
- line
- …
- according to a/the story
- story about
- story of
- …
- a fragment of a/the story
- a part of a/the story
- the rest of the story
- …
- The police didn't believe her story.
- a report in a newspaper, magazine or news broadcast
新闻报道 - a front-page story
头版报道 - Now for a summary of tonight's main news stories.
现在是今晚主要新闻综述。 - Let's check the top stories right now.
我们现在来看看那些头条新闻。 - the two biggest stories of the day
当今两个最大的故事 - He was covering the story for the ‘Glasgow Herald’.
他当时在为《格拉斯哥先驱报》作报道。
Extra ExamplesTopics TV, radio and newsb1- We'll have more on this breaking story as developments come in to us.
随着对事态发展的了解，我们将会继续报道这一突发新闻。 - The story broke in January.
这个消息是 1 月份传出来的。 - The New York Times broke the story and others picked it up.
《纽约时报》首先报道了这一消息，后来其他报纸纷纷跟进。 - We will continue to follow this story and bring you the latest developments.
我们将持续跟踪这一事件，为您带来最新进展的报道。 - The magazine chose the peace process as its cover story.
这期杂志将和平进程选作封面故事。 - The magazine gives the inside story of life in a rock band.
该杂志刊登了有关一支摇滚乐队生活的内幕报道。 - The biggest story of the day was the signing of the peace agreement.
当天最大的新闻是和平协议的签订。 - National Geographic ran a feature story on dinosaurs.
《国家地理》杂志刊登了一篇关于恐龙的专题报道。 - More than one correspondent filed a story about the incident.
不止一名记者发稿报道这起事件。 - He's covering the story in Gaza for CNN.
他正在加沙为美国有线电视新闻网作报道。 - Full story on page 3.
详尽报道见第 3 页。 - Every newspaper carried the story.
每家报纸都登载了这则报道。 - And now back to our top story tonight…
现在回到我们今晚的头条新闻⋯ - This interview may be the biggest story of his career.
这次采访可能是他职业生涯中最重要的故事。 - No newspaper would publish the story.
没有报纸会发表这个故事。 - Le Monde ran the story on the front page.
《世界报》在头版刊登了这篇报道。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- huge
- top
- …
- file
- write
- carry
- …
- break
- story about
- story of
- a front-page story
- (informal) something that somebody says which is not true
谎言；假话 - She knew the child had been telling stories again.
她知道这孩子又在说谎了。
- She knew the child had been telling stories again.
- (US English) (British English storey)a level of a building; a floor
楼层
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a historical account or representation): shortening of Anglo-Norman French estorie, from Latin historia from Greek historia ‘finding out, narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit ‘have knowledge’.
Idioms
a likely story
- (informal, ironic) used to show that you do not believe what somebody has said
（表示不相信某人的话）是吗 - You just found it lying in the street? A likely story!
你刚发现它躺在街上？一个可能的故事！ - He said he'd met Rihanna. A likely story.
他说他见过蕾哈娜。一个可能的故事。
- You just found it lying in the street? A likely story!
(to cut a) long story short (British English)
(North American English (to make a) long story short)
- (informal) used when you are saying that you will get to the point of what you are saying quickly, without including all the details
长话短说；扼要地说；简而言之 - To cut a long story short, we didn’t get home until 3 in the morning!
长话短说，我们直到凌晨三点才回到家！ - Anyway, long story short: we had this argument and I haven't seen him since.
不管怎样，长话短说：我们发生了争吵，从那以后我就再也没有见过他。
- To cut a long story short, we didn’t get home until 3 in the morning!
the (same) old story
- what usually happens
惯常的事情；（仍旧是）那么回事 - It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding.
又是一桩资金短缺、经营不善的老故事。
- It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding.
pitch a story/line/yarn (to somebody)
- (informal) to tell somebody a story or make an excuse that is not true
（对某人）编谎话
the story goes (that)… | so the story goes
- used to describe something that people are saying although it may not be correct
据说；传闻；谣传 - She never saw him again—or so the story goes.
从此她再没有见过他，或者据说如此。 - The story goes that this castle was founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
相传这座城堡是腓特烈•巴巴罗萨大帝修建的。
- She never saw him again—or so the story goes.
tell a different story/tale
- to give some information that is different from what you expect or have been told
说的情况迥然不同；讲出来的是另一回事 - These drugs are widely believed to be effective medications. The data, however, tell a different story.
这些药物被广泛认为是有效的药物。然而，数据却讲述了一个不同的故事。
- These drugs are widely believed to be effective medications. The data, however, tell a different story.
tell its own tale/story
- to explain itself, without needing any further explanation or comment
不言而喻；不释自明；无须解释 - Her face told its own story.
看她的面部表情，就什么都明白了。
- Her face told its own story.
that’s the story of my life
- (informal) when you say that’s the story of my life about a bad experience you have had, you mean you have had many similar experiences
我就是这个命（表示多次遭遇类似的不幸） - Another missed opportunity—that’s the story of my life!
又一个错失的机会——这就是我一生的故事！ - Out of work with no money—that's the story of my life.
失业在家而且身无分文 － 我就是这个命。
- Another missed opportunity—that’s the story of my life!