1.Get them laughing. Starting with an anecdote or joke will warm up the audience.
让听众笑起来。演讲开始时先讲个趣闻轶事或笑话，拉近与听众的距离。
2.He preceded his lecture with a humorous anecdote.
他以一个幽默的轶事开始他的演说
3.In our book, Computer Analysis of the Futures Market, we tell an amusing anecdote about a trader who seemed a bit loony because he used a Coke bottle with a broken radio antennae sticking out of it to receive trading advice from other planets.
我们在《期货市场计算机分析》一书中讲了一个有趣的故事，一位交易者看上去很傻，因为他在用一个破旧的收音机收听来自外星球的交易建议。
4.Now the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one merely a symptom?
这类奇闻的疑难之处是无法区别因果关系。是噪音引起了（精神）病呢，还是（精神）病的症状之一是对噪音的抱怨？
5.There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a "disjunction" between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.
译：正如财政部长罗伯特?鲁宾所说的，生产力发生飞跃的商业传奇与统计数字所反映的情况之间存在着一种“脱节”。
6.He told me some anecdote about our English teacher.
他告诉我几个关于英语老师的掌故。
7.Every time he does something horrendous , think how much you will enjoy retelling the anecdote later on.
每当他做出一些可怕的事情，就想一想你随后讲述这段轶事的时候将是多么有趣。
8.The research partly resulted from an anecdote from a UK man taking part in a stress work.He described a trip to the US with his team.
这项研究部分来源于一位参加一次紧张工作的英国人的逸事。他讲述了一次他和他的队友的美国之行。
9.a not incurious anecdote
相当有趣的轶事
10.He departs from the text to tell an anecdote .
他没讲课文而讲了一段轶事。
