history

英 [ˈhɪstri]

美 [ˈhɪstri]

n.  历史(指过去发生的所有事情); (有关某个地方、主题等的)发展史，历史; 历史课; 历史学

复数：histories　

中考高考CET4CET6考研IELTS计算机

Oxford 3000 / Collins.5 / BNC.496 / COCA.350

习惯用语

n.

be history
• 完蛋；已过去了；不再重要；成为历史
  to be dead or no longer important
• Another mistake like that and you're history.
  要是再犯那种错误你就完了。
• We won't talk about that─that's history.
  我们不会谈论那件事的——那都已经过去了。
• That's past history now.
  那是以前的事了。
the history books
• 历史上重大成就的记载
  the record of great achievements in history
• She has earned her place in the history books.
  她名垂青史。
history repeats itself
• 历史时常重演
  used to say that things often happen later in the same way as before
make historygo down in history
• 载入史册；青史留名；创造历史
  to be or do sth so important that it will be recorded in history
• a discovery that made medical history
  载入医学史册的一项重大发现
the rest is history
• 结局是尽人皆知的；结果如何不必赘述
  used when you are telling a story to say that you do not need to tell the end of it, because everyone knows it already

牛津词典

noun

• 历史（指过去发生的所有事情）
  all the events that happened in the past
  1. a turning point in human history
     人类历史的一个转折点
  2. one of the worst disasters in recent history
     近代史上最大的灾难之一
  3. a people with no sense of history
     一个没有历史感的民族
  4. Many people throughout history have dreamt of a world without war.
     历史上有很多人梦想过没有战争的世界。
  5. The area was inhabited long before the dawn of recorded history (= before people wrote about events) .
     早在有历史记载之前很久这个地区就有人居住了。
  6. These events changed the course of history .
     这些事件改变了历史的进程。
• （有关某个地方、主题等的）发展史，历史
  the past events concerned in the development of a particular place, subject, etc.
  1. the history of Ireland/democracy/popular music
     爱尔兰 / 民主 / 流行音乐的历史
  2. The local history of the area is fascinating.
     这个地区的历史很有意思。
  3. The school traces its history back to 1865.
     这个学校的历史可以追溯到1865年。
• 历史课；历史学
  the study of past events as a subject at school or university
  1. a history teacher
     历史老师
  2. a degree in History
     历史学学位
  3. social/economic/political history
     社会 / 经济 / 政治史
  4. ancient/medieval/modern history
     古代 / 中世纪 / 近代史
  5. She's studying art history .
     她正在研读艺术史。
• 历史（指历史记载或历史传说）
  a written or spoken account of past events
  1. She's writing a new history of Europe.
     她正在写一部新的欧洲史。
  2. She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters.
     接下来她列举了一长串灾难。
• （某人的）履历，经历；家族史；（某地的）沿革
  a record of sth happening frequently in the past life of a person, family or place; the set of facts that are known about sb's past life
  1. He has a history of violent crime.
     他有暴力犯罪的前科。
  2. There is a history of heart disease in my family.
     我家有家族心脏病史。
  3. a patient's medical history
     病人的病历

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 历史
  You can refer to the events of the past ashistory. You can also refer to the past events which concern a particular topic or place as its history.
  1. The Catholic Church has played a prominent role throughout Polish history.
     天主教会在整个波兰历史上曾发挥过举足轻重的作用。
  2. ...the most evil mass killer in history.
     历史上最令人发指的屠杀狂徒
  3. ...the history of Birmingham.
     伯明翰的历史
  4. ...religious history.
     宗教史
• 历史学;史学
  Historyis a subject studied in schools, colleges, and universities that deals with events that have happened in the past.
• N-COUNT 过去事件的记载;发展史
  Ahistoryis an account of events that have happened in the past.
  1. ...his magnificent history of broadcasting in Canada.
     他在加拿大辉煌的播音史
  2. ...oral histories taken from elderly people in Rochester.
     罗切斯特老一辈人的口述史
• N-COUNT 记录;习惯;（某地的）沿革
  If a person or a place hasa history ofsomething, it has been very common or has happened frequently in their past.
  1. He had a history of drink problems...
     他过去酗酒度日。
  2. The boy's mother had a history of abusing her children.
     男孩的母亲过去常虐待自己的孩子。
• N-COUNT 履历;经历
  Someone'shistoryis the set of facts that are known about their past.
  1. He couldn't get a new job because of his medical history.
     由于他的病史，他无法找到新的工作。
  2. ...an exhibition documenting the personal history of Anne Frank.
     安妮·弗兰克生平资料展
• N-UNCOUNT 历史的陈迹;（无关紧要的）往事
  If you say that an event, thing, or person ishistory, you mean that they are no longer important.
  1. The Charlottetown agreement is history.
     夏洛特敦协定已成为历史。
• PHRASE 接下来的事就世人皆知了
  If you are telling someone about an event and saythe rest is history, you mean that you do not need to tell them what happened next because everyone knows about it already.
  1. We met at college, the rest is history.
     我们是在上大学时认识的，接下来的事大家都知道了。
• See also:natural history

英英释义

noun

• the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
  1. he teaches Medieval history
  2. history takes the long view
• all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing
  1. the dawn of recorded history
  2. from the beginning of history
• a record or narrative description of past events
  1. a history of France
  2. he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
  3. the story of exposure to lead
  Synonym:accountchroniclestory
• the aggregate of past events
  1. a critical time in the school's history
• the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
  1. all of human history

双语例句

• They are a priceless record of a brief period in British history
  它们是对英国历史上一个短暂时期的极为珍贵的记录。
• New arts have been born in the course of the history of men.
  在人类历史发展过程中不断产生新的艺术。
• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.
  历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• The past three years have been among the most momentous in world history.
  过去的3年是世界历史上最重要的时期之一。
• Revisionist history must be challenged by historical research.
  必须通过历史研究对修正主义历史学进行质疑论证。
• What complicates the issue is the burden of history
  历史的重负使问题复杂化了。
• History will prove him to have been right all along.
  历史将证明他一直是对的。
• That is all history now.
  那都是往事了。
• This had been a particularly difficult chapter in Lebanon's recent history.
  这在黎巴嫩的近代史上是个特别困难的时期。
• The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.
  基督诞生是世界历史上一个重要纪元的开端。