biography
/baɪˈɒgrəfɪ/noun
(pl. -ies)
1- an account of someone's life written by someone else传记。
1.1
- mass noun writing of such a type as a branch of literature传记文学。
1.2
- the course of a person's life生平, 人生历程:
although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition.
尽管他们的人生道路各不相同, 但他们的动力都来自相似的抱负。
派生词
biographer
nounbiographic
adjectivebiographical
adjectivebiographically
adverb词源
late 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios 'life' + -graphia 'writing'.