0 a short, often funny story, especially about something someone has done -- （尤指关于某人的）趣闻，轶事
All three use anecdote and narrative to impart to the reader a sense of the lived experience of the poor, ordinary and those deemed anti-social.
I have therefore sought to identify patterns within a heterogeneous body of sources on scholars' lives - normative blueprints, anecdotes, correspondence, and autobiographies.
His elegant narrative is often accompanied by interesting anecdotes or folk tunes inspired by the various facets of the migrants' lives.
This starts out promisingly but unfortunately swiftly descends once again into anecdote and assertion.
His anecdotes lighten the tone of what might be considered more turgid information on rail and road construction, flight paths, plane types and federal regulation.
The frame-work of the book is the series of class-room lessons introducing fresh grammatical phenomena, followed, where possible, by a rhyme and an anecdote.
There are countless anecdotes of inventive optimists who succeeded where others failed by imagining waiting customers.
An anecdote about a patient with strong left hemineglect suggests the involvement of consciousness in this phenomenon.
