Episode
['epɪsəʊd] or ['ɛpɪsod]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series.
(noun.) a part of a broadcast serial.
(noun.) a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events.
整理:特蕾西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
艾米編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Digression, incidental narrative.
亨利錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a story introduced into a narrative or poem to give variety: an interesting incident.—adjs. Ep′isōdal Episō′dial Episōd′ic Episōd′ical pertaining to or contained in an episode: brought in as a digression.—adv. Episōd′ically by way of episode: incidentally.
整理:莱斯利
例句/造句/用法:
- The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The episode is, by assumption, past. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Edison tells of another similar episode. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Another episode of this period is curious in its revelation of the tenacity with which Edison has always held to some of his oldest possessions with a sense of personal attachment. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A visit to Mrs. Manson Mingott was always an amusing episode to the young man. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- During the homeward drive Archer pondered deeply on this episode. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Shortly after this episode another prisoner was brought in and chained near me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- For many years after this episode, the modern lead-lead type of battery thus brought forward with so great a flourish of trumpets had a hard time of it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But life told them that society was brutal: an episode like the shirtwaist factory fire drove them to blasphemy and dynamite. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Newland Archer, during this brief episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- To the boy, no doubt, the episode was only a pathetic instance of vain frustration, of wasted forces. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I well remember a hot episode of his with a certain Madame Panache--a lady temporarily employed by Madame Beck to give lessons in history. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- From Canada, after the episodes noted in the last chapter, he went to Adrian, Michigan, and of what happened there Edison tells a story typical of his wanderings for several years to come. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Episodes full of human interest attend its development. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The lives of great men, of heroes and leaders, make concrete and vital historic episodes otherwise abstract and incomprehensible. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But this was not until some episodes with baby were over, and had left her mind at leisure. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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