autobiographical

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autobiographical — 形容詞

  • autobiographicalpositive
  • more autobiographicalcomparative
  • most autobiographicalsuperlative

1. describing a fictional work — such as a novel, film, or play — whose characters,

1.形容詞B2
釋義

自傳式

取材自身經歷的

describing a fictional work — such as a novel, film, or play — whose characters, emotional conflicts, or settings are based on the creator's real-life experiences, even though names and events may be changed for the story.

例句

Many readers assumed the novel was purely invented, but the author later confirmed it was largely autobiographical.

許多讀者以為這本小說是純粹虛構的，但作者後來證實它大部分是自傳式的。

largely autobiographical

Chidi poured his childhood memories into an autobiographical play about growing up in Lagos.

Chidi 將童年回憶傾注於一部關於在拉哥斯成長的自傳式劇作中。

同義詞
  • personal

    broader and less formal; can describe any intimate or private material, not necessarily a creative work

  • firsthand

    emphasises direct experience rather than second-hand knowledge; often used for accounts and reports

  • confessional

    suggests a revealing, emotionally open tone; narrower and more intense than autobiographical

反義詞
  • fictional

    based on imagination, not the author's real life

  • invented

    completely made up, not drawn from personal experience

用法筆記

Often found before nouns such as novel, film, play, or song whose plot or characters come from the author's own life. Intensifying adverbs are common: highly autobiographical, deeply autobiographical, partly autobiographical.

常見錯誤

❌The novel is autobiographical about the author's war experiences.
✅The novel is autobiographical; it draws heavily on the author's war experiences.
💡the adjective describes the work itself and does not take the pattern 'autobiographical about + topic.'

2. describing a non-fiction narrative — such as an essay, a memoir, or a diary — th

2.形容詞B2
釋義

自傳體

採用自傳體裁的

describing a non-fiction narrative — such as an essay, a memoir, or a diary — that is written in the first person as a chronological account of the author's own life, following the conventions of the autobiography genre.

例句

The Watanabe family patriarch wrote an autobiographical narrative covering his childhood in Kyoto, his years abroad, and his return to Japan.

渡邊家族的家長寫了一部自傳體敘事，記述了他在京都的童年、在海外的歲月，以及回到日本後的生活。

autobiographical narrative

Samira published an autobiographical essay tracing her journey from a street vendor in Nairobi to a university lecturer in Dar es Salaam.

Samira 發表了一篇自傳體散文，追溯她從奈洛比的街頭小販到三蘭港大學講師的歷程。

autobiographical essay

同義詞
  • memoiristic

    less common and specifically about memoir-writing rather than full autobiography

  • biographical

    wider in scope — can describe an account of another person's life, not just the author's

用法筆記

Distinguish from Sense 1 (ABOUT AUTHOR'S LIFE): this sense concerns works that ARE autobiographies (factual first-person chronological accounts). Sense 1 concerns fictional works whose INSPIRATION comes from the author's life. A work may be autobiographical in both senses — e.g. an autobiographical novel — but the two dimensions (content origin vs. generic form) are distinct.

常見錯誤

❌She wrote an autobiographical essay about her grandmother's travels.
✅She wrote an autobiographical essay about the summers she spent with her grandmother.
💡autobiographical material must be about the writer's own life, not someone else's.