story
$ \mathrm{story}1 | ˈstôrē |
noun (plural stories)
1. an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment: 娯楽のために語られる想像上、実在の人々や出来事の説明
«…についての» (娯楽のために話す, 書いた)話, 物語, 小説 «about, of» (→ tale)
e.g. an adventure story: 冒険物語
e.g. I'm going to tell you a story.: 私はあなたに物語を教えるつもりだ。
a plot or story line: プロット、話の筋
(映画･劇･本の)筋, プロット(plot, story line).
e.g. the novel has a good story.: その小説はいい話の筋を持っている。
a report of an item of news in a newspaper, magazine, or news broadcast: 新聞、雑誌、ニュース放送の個々のニュースの報道
記事, 報道
e.g. stories in the local papers.: 地方新聞の記事
a piece of gossip; a rumor: ゴシップ; うわさ
うわさ(rumor)
e.g. there have been lots of stories going around, as you can imagine.: 想像できる通り、たくさんの噂が出回っている。
informal a false statement or explanation; a lie: 偽の陳述や説明; 嘘
｟小児｠ うそ
e.g. Ellie never told stories—she had always believed in the truth.: えりーは嘘を言ったことがなかった。彼女はいつも真実を信じていた。
2. an account of past events in someone's life or in the evolution of something: 誰かの人生や何かの発展のにおける過去の出来事の説明
伝記; (物の)歴史, 由来
e.g. the story of modern farming: 現代農業の歴史
e.g. the film is based on a true story.: その映画は実話に基づいている。
a particular person's representation of the facts of a matter, especially as given in self-defense: ある人の事柄の事実の表現、特に自己弁護で与えられたものとして。
言い訳, 弁解, 作り話
e.g. during police interviews, Harper changed his story.: 警察の取り調べの間、ハーパーは彼の説明を変えた。
in singular a situation viewed in terms of the information known about it or its similarity to another: それについて知られた情報や別のものとの類似の観点から考察される場面
(経験･事件についての)話, 説明 (!主に口述の話をいう)
e.g. having such information is useful, but it is not the whole story: そのような情報を持っていることは役に立つが、それが話の全てではない。
e.g. many children with leukemia now survive—twenty years ago it was a very different story.: 白血病を持つ多くの子供達が現在では生き残る。12年前は事情がとても異なった。
PHRASES
but that's another story
informal used after raising a matter to indicate that one does not want to expand on it for now.
it's a long story
informal used to indicate that, for now, one does not want to talk about something that is too involved or painful.
it's (or that's) the story of one's life
informal used to lament the fact that a particular misfortune has happened too often in one's experience: “It's the story of my life,” my mother would say when she returned home from a sale empty-handed.
the story goes
it is said or rumored:
e.g. the story goes that he's fallen out with his friends.
to make a long story short (or British to cut a long story short)
used to end an account of events quickly:
e.g. to make a long story short, I married Stephen.
the same old story
used to indicate that a particular bad situation is tediously familiar:
e.g. are we not faced with the same old story of a badly managed project?
ORIGIN
Middle English (denoting a historical account or representation): shortening of Anglo-Norman French estorie, from Latin historia (see history).
$ \mathrm{story}^2 | ˈstôrē | (British storey)
語源: 各階の飾り窓に歴史物語(story)を描いたことから
/icons/point.icon 階
floor: 建物内部の特定の階
story, storey: 建物の外部から見た階
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noun (plural stories or storeys) North American
a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level: 同じ階層にあるすべての部屋を含む建物の一部
(建物の)階, 層(｟主に英｠ storey)(→ floor)
e.g. in combination : a three-story building.: 3階建ての建物
ORIGIN
late Middle English: shortening of Latin historia ‘history, story’, a special use in Anglo-Latin, perhaps originally denoting a tier of painted windows or sculptures on the front of a building (representing a historical subject).