Expressions with the word story

«Well, anyway, it’s a perfectly elegant story, Anne, and will make you famous, of that I’m sure.

Now, Diana, tell me candidly, do you see any faults in my story?»

«Why, that is where the humor comes in, and it’s one of the best parts of the whole story,» said Anne.

«Of course,» said the Story Girl hastily, not wishing to have Dan turned against our project, «if all the rest of you want it I’ll go in for it too.

«But,» said Cecily timidly, «that will leave out Peter and the Story Girl and Sara Ray, just as if they didn’t have a share in it.

«Oh!» Cecily threw a deprecating glance at the Story Girl and Felicity.

Princess Ozma, whom I love as much as my readers do, is again introduced in this story, and so are several of our old friends of Oz.

If it had occurred to me before it would have perhaps done away with the existence of this Author’s Note; for, indeed, the same remark applies to every story in this volume.

«Falk» — the second story in the volume — offended the delicacy of one critic at least by certain peculiarities of its subject.

The editor, who obviously had read the story, might have perceived that for himself.

Again as lights on the human story I have liked to read such books of medicine as have fallen in my way, and I seldom take up a medical periodical without reading of all the cases it describes, and in fact every article in it.

Of course, there are terrible longueurs in it, and you do get tired of the same story told over and over from the different points of view, and yet it is such a great story, and unfolded with such a magnificent breadth and noble fulness, that one who blames it lightly blames himself heavily.

Of other modern poets I have read some things of William Morris, like the «Life and Death of Jason,» the «Story of Gudrun,» and the «Trial of Guinevere,» with a pleasure little less than passionate, and I have equally liked certain pieces of Dante Rossetti.

In that story I had not gone back to the Archipelago, I had only turned for another look at it.

Looking through that story lately I had the material impression of sitting under a large and expensive umbrella in the loud drumming of a heavy rain-shower.

- повесть; рассказ

short story — короткий рассказ, новелла 
good /funny/ story — анекдот 
blue [off-colour] story — непристойный анекдот 
ghost story — история с привидениями 
detective story — детектив, детективная история 
love story — любовный роман; рассказ или повесть о любви 

- фабула, сюжет

the main thing in a novel is the story — самое главное в романе — это сюжет 
I read only for the story — я читаю, только чтобы следить за фабулой /за развитием событий/ 

- история; предание; сказка

the story of printing — история книгопечатания 
stories of ancient Greece — древнегреческие мифы 
to tell smb. one’s story /the story of one’s life/ — рассказать кому-л. историю своей жизни /свою биографию/ 
his story is an eventful one — его биография богата событиями 
a character famous in story and song — ≅ легендарная личность 
the story has been several times handled in both prose and verse — это предание не раз излагалось и стихами и прозой 

- заявление; что-л. сказанное, чьи-л. слова

- разг. разговор, рассказ; россказни, сплетни

scandalous stories are circulated about N. — об N. ходят скандальные слухи /сплетни/ 
the story is discredited by some — не все верят тому, что об этом говорится 
many curious stories are told about elephants — о слонах рассказывают много любопытного 

- разг., преим. детск. выдумка, ложь

to tell stories — выдумывать, лгать, сочинять, рассказывать сказки, небылицы 

- газетный материал, сообщение в печати

to make a story out of a trivial event — сделать статью на материале незначительного события 
there is a story in him — о нём стоит написать /рассказать читателям/ 

- лицо или событие, заслуживающее освещения в печати

the biggest stories of the year — важнейшие события года 
that is (quite) another story — это (совсем) другое дело 
it is quite another story now — положение теперь изменилось 
to make a long story short — короче говоря 

Мои примеры

Don’t tell stories. 

Не сочиняйте. / Не рассказывайте сказок.

His story rings true. 

Его рассказ звучит правдоподобно.

He told us the story. 

Он рассказал нам эту историю.

It was a very sad story. 

Это была очень грустная история.

He told a funny story. 

Он рассказал смешную историю.

He twisted up the story. 

Он всё перепутал.

That’s a likely story! 

Ага! Так я и поверил! (разг.; ирон.)

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The story accreted emotion  

… I could pretty much go wherever I felt a story led …  

…the professor called it one sockdolager of a short story, but he seemed to be the only one in the room amused by this description…  

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb story in English.

Story

Story or Stories may refer to: ▪ Story, a recounting of a sequence of events ▪ Narrative ▪ Story ▪ Story, or storey, a floor or level of a building ▪ Stories, colloquial, US American expression for soap operas…

Present

I story

you story

he/she/it stories

we story

you story

they story

Present continuous

I am storying

you are storying

he/she/it is storying

we are storying

you are storying

they are storying

Present perfect

I have storied

you have storied

he/she/it has storied

we have storied

you have storied

they have storied

Present perfect continuous

I have been storying

you have been storying

he/she/it has been storying

we have been storying

you have been storying

they have been storying

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

Past

I storied

you storied

he/she/it storied

we storied

you storied

they storied

Past continuous

I was storying

you were storying

he/she/it was storying

we were storying

you were storying

they were storying

Past perfect

I had storied

you had storied

he/she/it had storied

we had storied

you had storied

they had storied

Past perfect continuous

I had been storying

you had been storying

he/she/it had been storying

we had been storying

you had been storying

they had been storying

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

Future

I will story

you will story

he/she/it will story

we will story

you will story

they will story

Future continuous

I will be storying

you will be storying

he/she/it will be storying

we will be storying

you will be storying

they will be storying

Future perfect

I will have storied

you will have storied

he/she/it will have storied

we will have storied

you will have storied

they will have storied

Future perfect continuous

I will have been storying

you will have been storying

he/she/it will have been storying

we will have been storying

you will have been storying

they will have been storying

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

Conditional

I would story

you would story

he/she/it would story

we would story

you would story

they would story

Conditional continuous

I would be storying

you would be storying

he/she/it would be storying

we would be storying

you would be storying

they would be storying

Conditional perfect

I would have story

you would have story

he/she/it would have story

we would have story

you would have story

they would have story

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been storying

you would have been storying

he/she/it would have been storying

we would have been storying

you would have been storying

they would have been storying

Conditional or «future-in-the-past» tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

Imperative

you story
we let´s story
you story

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

Present Participle

storying

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

The translations of story from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «story» in English.

The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «story» in the different countries.

List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «story».

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «story» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «story» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I’d like to do it again — I just have to find a story I want to tell.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms.

The ‘New Yorker’ asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn’t the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it’s dying.

When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn’t give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who’d eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, ‘I’m famous. How can I be fat?’ It was a slap. I decided to get fit.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Everyone has an ‘I thought Elliott was crazy’ story.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

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The Story Book of Science

The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations with three children.

It began shortly after the party at which one of their members, Edward Wanderley, had died — or was killed.

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Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of …

No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the «magic» of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.

«Growing up. Leaving home. Falling in love. Witnessing madness and murder. Becoming a ninja. This could be a story about any of us. But it isn’t. It’s a story about eggs.»—P. [4] of cover.

In this, the original book about the curious monkey, George is taken from the jungle by the man in the yellow hat to live in a new home, but—oh, what happened!

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Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story

Like Stephen Krashen’s important work in The Power of Reading, Story Proof collects and analyzes the research that validates the importance of story, story reading, and storytelling to the brain development and education of children and …

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Polio : An American Story: An American Story

Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears.

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Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence

In this study by an expert on learning and computers, the author argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence.

What is the essence of story? How does the storyteller convey meaning? Leading scholar Harold Scheub tackles these questions and more, demonstrating that the power of story lies in emotion.

» Exploring its universality and cultural specificity, this collection of specially commissioned essays demonstrates the multiple planes on which the film can be appreciated.

The Public Editor’s Journal | A Clinton Story Fraught With …

Updated: July 28, 2015 | The story certainly seemed like a blockbuster: A criminal investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Justice Department was being … «New York Times, Jul 15»

Ex-Wife: Donald Trump Made Me Feel Violated During Sex

“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet… you’re … «Daily Beast, Jul 15»

Ads for Podcasts Test the Line Between Story and Sponsor

But Ms. Chow was not interviewing Ford employees for a news story. She was making an advertisement for Ford to run on her podcast, between news segments. «New York Times, Jul 15»

New York Times alters Clinton email story

The Times also changed the headline of the story, from «Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email» to «Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email … «Politico, Jul 15»

‘A story of heroism’ from survivors inside La. theater

They were two teachers out to watch a movie on a steamy Thursday evening in Lafayette, La. And Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says they became «a story of … «USA TODAY, Jul 15»

Overpasses: A love story

MILWAUKEE—The Marquette Interchange is an engineering marvel, a steel and concrete symphony of girders and flyovers at the edge of downtown Milwaukee, … «Politico, Jul 15»

Is Gawker’s story removal a dangerous precedent?

Many opponents pointed out that the story amounted to homophobic shaming, while some of Gawker’s editorial staff defended the decision. Gawker’s Read … «CNBC, Jul 15»

Her Story Is a Game Made of Video Clips, and I’m Obsessed

If you don’t think a videogame about watching a whole bunch of chopped-up, out-of-order clips of a woman talking into a camera can be gripping, Her Story will … «Wired, Jul 15»

Reviewed on PC

This is the core experience of Her Story, a wonderful, brave video game unlike anything I’ve played before. The woman above has a dead husband, and she’s a … «IGN, Jun 15»

The Story of New York’s First Black Police Officer, Told With the Help …

Mr. Battle’s arc from humble Southern roots through racist barriers in New York would be a familiar story, like the stories of other black pioneers. But he was … «New York Times, Jun 15»

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