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| adventure story n |
(fiction with exciting plot) |
قصة مغامرة، قصة مثيرة |
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When I was a child I wanted to be a pirate like the ones I read about in adventure stories. |
| as the story goes expr |
(as has been said) |
كما جرت العادة، كما يقول المثل |
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As the story goes, Hector was out of town when the bank was robbed. |
backstory,
back story n |
(fiction: character's background) (في حياة إحدى شخصيات القصة) |
خلفية الأحداث |
| bedtime story n |
(story read to a child before sleep) |
قصة تحكى للأطفال عند النوم |
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The children begged their father to read them a bedtime story. |
| Christmas Story n |
(Bible tale: birth of Jesus) |
قصة ميلاد المسيح |
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Nativity plays tell the Christmas story. |
cock-and-bull story,
cock and bull story n |
figurative, informal (far-fetched account) |
حكاية لا تُصدَّق |
| coming-of-age story n |
(novel, film: child becomes adult) |
قصة نشأة شخص، قصة بلوغ شخص |
| cover story n |
(magazine: story on front page) |
موضوع الغلاف |
| cover story n |
(fiction concealing true purpose) (ما يقال لإخفاء الحقيقة) |
تغطية |
| detective story n |
(story about crime investigation) (قصة عن تحقيق في جريمة) |
رواية بوليسية |
fairy tale,
fairy story n |
(fantasy story) |
قصة خرافية |
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The movie is a modern adaptation of a classic fairy tale. |
| familiar story n |
(common situation) |
قصّة مألوفة |
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أمر مُعتاد، أمر اعتيادي |
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It's a familiar story; she came to New York to be a star on Broadway and ended up on the streets. |
| fish story n |
figurative, informal (far-fetched account) |
قصّة غير مُحتملة |
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أمر بعيد الاحتمال |
| funny story n |
(amusing anecdote, joke) |
قصة طريفة |
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He told us a funny story about his holiday in Thailand. |
| ghost story n |
(tale of the supernatural) |
قصّة أشباح |
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They sat around the fire and told ghost stories to each other. |
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جلسوا حول النار وأخذوا يتبادلون قصص الأشباح. |
| good story n |
(entertaining account, anecdote) |
قصة مسلية |
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It wasn't much fun when it happened, but it makes a good story now. |
| good story n |
(good piece of fiction) |
قصة لطيفة |
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I read a good story by Carol Shields last week. |
| hard-luck story n |
(account of [sb]'s misfortune) |
قصة معاناة |
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The man told us a hard-luck story, before asking us for money. |
| horror story n |
(scary story, film, etc.) |
قصّة رعب |
| human interest story n |
(news item about people's lives) |
قصة حياة |
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It's a human interest story about a boy who successfully battled against cancer. |
| life story n |
([sb]'s past experiences and history) |
سيرة، قصة حياة |
| a likely story n |
informal, ironic (dubious account) |
قصة مشكوك فيها |
| ملاحظة: قد تجد أقرب مرادف للتعبير الإنجليزي بالعامية نظرًا لاختلاف الأسلوب بين الفصحى والعامية. |
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Are you telling me you never heard the phone? That's a likely story! |
| love story n |
(story about a romantic relationship) |
قصة حب |
| moral of the story n |
(ethical lesson in a fable or story) |
مغزى القصة، العبرة من القصة، الدرس |
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In the tale of the tortoise and the hare, the slow tortoise wins the race - the moral of the story is that steady persistence wins in the end. |
| moral of the story n |
figurative (lesson to be learned from [sth]) |
درس |
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The engine blew up after a week so the moral of the story is not to buy a really cheap second-hand car. |
multi-story (US),
multi-storey (UK) n as adj |
(building: with levels) (مبنى) |
متعدد الطبقات |
| news story |
(news report) |
قصة إخبارية، تقرير إخباري |
| short story n |
(written fiction shorter than a novella) |
قصة قصيرة |
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He wrote short stories about people living in rural areas. |
short story writer,
short-story writer n |
(author of short fiction) |
كاتب قصص قصيرة |
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Edgar Allan Poe was a famous 19th-century American short story writer. |
single-story (US),
single-storey (UK) adj |
(building: having one level, floor) (مبنى) |
بطابق واحد، بطبقة واحدة |
| sob story n |
informal (tale or account meant to evoke pity) |
قصة حزينة |
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Just get on with your job – I don't want to hear any more of your sob stories. |
| story writer n |
(author of prose fiction) |
كاتب قصصي |
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I want to be a story writer when I grow up. |
storyline,
story line,
story-line n |
(fiction: plot, story) |
قصة، رواية |
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I found the storyline of “War and Peace” really difficult to follow. |
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إنني أجد أنه من الصعب تتبع قصة الحرب والسلام. |
| success story n |
figurative (real-life example of [sb] succeeding) (مثال لشخص حقق نجاحًا) |
قصّة نجاح |
| tall story n |
figurative, informal (far-fetched account) |
قصة صعبة التصديق |
tall tale,
tall story n |
figurative, informal (far-fetched story) |
حكاية، قصة خيالية |
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(في بعض المناطق) |
خبرية |
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I don't want to hear any of your tall tales about being abducted by aliens on your way to school. |
| tell a story v expr |
(recite a narrative) |
يروي قصة، يسرد حكاية |
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The children asked their grandfather to tell them a story. |
| tell a story v expr |
figurative (reflect events) |
يعكس أحداثاً، يروي قصة |
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Every picture tells a story. |
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كل صورة تعكس أحداثاً. |
| that's a different story interj |
informal (quite the contrary) |
هذا أمر مختلف، هذه قصة أخرى، هذه قصة مختلفة |
| ملاحظة: قد تجد أقرب مرادف للتعبير الإنجليزي بالعامية نظرًا لاختلاف الأسلوب بين الفصحى والعامية. |
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Singing pop is pretty easy, but singing opera – well, that's a different story! |
| the whole story n |
(the full truth) |
القصة بأكملها |
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We'll never know the whole story about what she did that night. |
three-story apartment (US),
three-storey apartment (UK) n |
(flat with three floors) |
شقة من ثلاث طبقات |
| top story n |
(headline news item) |
الخبر الأبرز |
| true story n |
(account of a real-life experience) |
قصة حقيقة |
two-story (US),
two-storey (UK) n as adj |
(building: having two floors) (مبنى) |
من طبقتين |
upper story,
plural: upper stories (US),
upper storey,
plural: upper storeys (UK) n |
(building: higher floor) |
طابق علويّ، دور علويّ |
