life story
This biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous.这部传记展示了他成名前的一些生活情况。
Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought.她的自传透露她并非像大家所想象的那样富有。
The biography was a bit of a rush job.这部传记读来有点急就章的感觉。
The biography is an attempt to uncover the inner man.该传记试图揭示他内心世界的隐秘。
The biography is woven from the many accounts which exist of things she did.该传记是根据大量现存的对她的事迹的记载编写而成的。

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biography | American Dictionary

biography
noun[ C/U ]
us/bɑɪˈɑɡ·rə·fi/
literature
the story of the life of a person written by someone else, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories:
[ C ]He wrote a biography of Lincoln.

biographical

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌbɑɪ·əˈɡræf·ɪ·kəl/
The funeral elegy provides a treasure of biographical information about Shakespeare.

Examples of biography

biography
The strength of the notion of the cultural biography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.
The algorithm takes a set of earthly biographies as input and produces a set of improved resurrection biographies as output.
However, an annotation of the essays, together with a more detailed biography, would have increased its value for subsequent scholarship.
This biography presents a figure who deserves to be better known and appears to have been an unusually attractive and amiable character.
This book purports to be a biography, but the writer faced very considerable difficulties in researching it.
This book permits the reader to see the many parallels between the biographies of the two lingua francas and the positions adopted by their elites.
Despite these differences a full employment biography guaranteed a pension worth at least 70% of a wage earner's last net wage.
There are other indications, however, that the biography of a house did not necessarily end with the end of habitation of the farmstead.
It is also important that we can compare the contrasting biographies of houses, cemeteries, land divisions and enclosures.
The fascination with this new form of cerebral biographies grasped anatomical experts as well.
The exemplar biographies and contrasting employment histories clearly reveal considerable variability in the pension outcomes and several complexities in the social division of occupational welfare.
Clearly, the notion of durability is related to the stable location of the farmstead, whose cultural biography spans multiple household cycles and building phases.
These are essentially intellectual biographies followed by references to their major works, and secondary readings.
This collective biography is a painstaking and very informative reconstruction of the lives of a number of these reformist intellectuals.
Then we do improvisations of the main events in all the characters' biographies.
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