1·Pete was telling them an anecdote about their mother.
皮特正告诉他们一个关于他们母亲的趣闻轶事。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·But I remember an anecdote I once heard from one of my German friends. Shortly after the unification, an Ossie and a Weissie meet in Berlin.
但我记得从一个德国朋友那里听来的这样一件轶事：统一后不久，一个东德人与一个西德人在柏林相遇。
3·It's a humorous anecdote now; but the truth it reveals is less than funny.
现在该事是一件幽默的轶事，但它揭露的事实并不有趣。
4·Rosenberg is giving us an anecdote from the trenches, and yet it slips very quickly into a sense of fable.
罗宾森给我们呈现战壕中的轶事，它很快成为一个无稽之谈。
5·In her letter she Shared an anecdote about my mother (now long deceased).
在信中她告诉我一件有关我那已经去世很久的母亲的轶事。