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📖 Определения и значения для слова story

📒 a description of events and people that the writer or speaker has invented in order to entertain people

  • a tragic love story
  • adventure/detective stories
  • a bedtime story

📒 the series of events in a book, film, play, etc.

  • Her novels always have the same basic story.
  • The screenplay sticks to the original story.
  • The character's central story arc involves a difficult choice between love and duty.

📒 an account of past events or of how something has developed

  • The film is based on a true story.
  • to recount/relate a story
  • story of something/somebody He told us the story of his life.

📒 an account, often spoken, of what happened to somebody or of how something happened

  • The police didn't believe her story.
  • I suspected he hadn't told us the whole story.
  • It was many years before the full story was made public.

📒 a report in a newspaper, magazine or news broadcast

  • a front-page story
  • Now for a summary of tonight's main news stories.
  • Let's check the top stories right now.

📒 something that somebody says which is not true

  • She knew the child had been telling stories again.

📒 a level of a building; a floor

📒 used to show that you do not believe what somebody has said

  • You just found it lying in the street? A likely story!
  • He said he'd met Rihanna. A likely story.

📒 used when you are saying that you will get to the point of what you are saying quickly, without including all the details

  • To cut a long story short, we didn’t get home until 3 in the morning!
  • Anyway, long story short: we had this argument and I haven't seen him since.

📒 what usually happens

  • It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding.

📒 to tell somebody a story or make an excuse that is not true

📒 used to describe something that people are saying although it may not be correct

  • She never saw him again—or so the story goes.
  • The story goes that this castle was founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

📒 to give some information that is different from what you expect or have been told

  • These drugs are widely believed to be effective medications. The data, however, tell a different story.

📒 to explain itself, without needing any further explanation or comment

  • Her face told its own story.

📒 when you say that’s the story of my life about a bad experience you have had, you mean you have had many similar experiences

  • Another missed opportunity—that’s the story of my life!
  • Out of work with no money—that's the story of my life.
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