| 释义 |
Examples:the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story—pass on stories (idiom); to sow dissension—notional diagram (i.e. made-up picture or artist's impression for news story)—Chinese set expression, often made up of 4 characters or two couplets of 4 characters each, often alluding a story or historical quotation—the Last Supper (in the biblical Passion story)—Pontius Pilate (in the Biblical passion story)—tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion—amusing story with strained interpretations of history—one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); cut a long story short—story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide—Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)—great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)—The story is so good it's worth hearing a hundred times.—stories of ancient people—the Last Supper (in the Christian Passion story)—fig. develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc)—Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story)—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays—The Chronicles of Narnia, Children's stories by C.S. Lewis—in folk stories, a beautiful girl who will seduce you then reveal herself as a ghost—Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and story-teller, reported author of Aesop's fables—create from other material (story, artwork etc)—Mount of Olives (in the Christian passion story)—Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories—beguile with false stories—Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)—robber baron (in opera, old stories)—stories passed on from former times—Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)—foretaste of material come (in essay or story)—traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment—start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy express succinctly—Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures—one climax follows another (of thrilling story)—starting point or ending point (in stories etc)—a building of two or more stories—building of several stories—let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story)—Pilate (Pontius Pilate in the Biblical passion story)—fig. adding details while telling a story (make it more interesting)—short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer—Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis—Buddhist ornamentation decorating the upper story of a pagoda—classifier for stories of buildings; layers of cakes, paint, thin glass— |