奇闻的英文：
anecdote

I related the anecdote,whereupon he laughed heartily.
我叙述那件奇闻，他听了开怀大笑。

A strange news and an extraordinary affair
奇闻逸事

His precocity was the astonishment of the neighborhood.
他的早熟是这一带的奇闻。

They are talking about latter anecdotes.
他们正在谈论近来的奇闻趣事。

Now the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.
当然,这一奇闻怪事的疑难之处在于无法确定因果关系。

What makes the anecdote a puzzle was that the consequence of it was not found.
当然，这一奇闻怪事的疑难之处在于无法确定因果关系。

It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship.
航运公司为打捞沉船的费用提出要求，这并非奇闻。

It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship
航运公司为打捞沉船的费用而提出要求，这并非奇闻。

For all the evidence, both statistical and anecdotal, suggests that women fare better in divorce than men.
不管是从统计数字还是奇闻轶事来看，所有的证据都表明离了婚的女性生活得比男性强。

Many of nature's greatest oddities,that would affright dwellers up here,are accepted down there(David Mazel)
许多自然界奇闻怪事使这里的居民惊恐万分，会被别处的居民很平静地接受(戴维·梅泽尔)

They are talking about latter anecdotes.
他们正在谈论近来的奇闻趣事。

It was a conversation pleasantly coloured with wit and anecdote.
这是一次充满妙语和轶闻的愉快交谈。

Gray's book is anecdotal and entertaining.
格雷的书中尽是些八卦消息，颇具娱乐性。

He farced his novel with anecdotes.
他用秘史形式使他的小说更富有趣味。

Anecdotal instances are open to the criticism of biased selection.
奇谈怪论的例子容易受到带有偏见的选择的批评。